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Artist Unknown A Rare and Important Early Six-Panel Folding Screen Depicting Female Proto-Kabuki, Momoyama (1573-1615) or early Edo (1615-1868) period, circa 1610-1620 (3)
A Rare and Important Early Six-Panel Folding Screen Depicting Female Proto-Kabuki, Momoyama (1573-1615) or early Edo (1615-1868) period, circa 1610-1620A chubyobu (medium-sized screen) of six panels, painted in ink, colours and gold on paper, depicting a performance by the Okuni kabuki troupe at the Kamo Riverbed in Kyoto: from right to left an outdoor sumo-wrestling bout, labourers carrying loads of charcoal, travellers crossing a bridge over the Kamo River, vendors seated on the ground selling their wares, loincloth-clad swimmers, fishermen, the theatre entrance with a taiko drummer, weapons and spectators on a yagura (elevated scaffold), a crowd of excited male and female spectators, a female kabuki performance (see below) and revelling picknickers; with a storage box and an earlier wooden frame and base. Overall: 101cm x 258cm (39?in x 101 5/8in); image: 87.5cm x 245cm (34?in x 96?in). (3).