Anonymous | Hunting scene before Mount Fuji | Edo period, late 17th century

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Anonymous

Hunting scene before Mount Fuji 

Edo period, late 17th century

a six-panel folding screen; ink, colour and sprinkled gold leaf on paper, with a scene of courtiers hunting wild boar and deer before Mount Fuji, their attendants with hawks, hounds and macaques, other panels depicting archers on horseback, and figures holding halberds (naginata)

Each panel 153 x 56.5 cm, 60¼ x 22¼ in.