Antique Japanese byobu (screen). Stunning pale colors, graceful white cranes, hakonechola grass and a big full moon. Lovely space divider or screen for an unused fireplace or for hiding a television. This is old handpainted silk on wood board framed in dark wood. The back is just as pretty. Folds down into one panel width. Condition is good with some wear to silk as shown. Priced accordingly as most are upwards of 450.
Byobu, which literally means wind walls (屏 byo wall, 風 bu wind), are ornate mobile walls used to separate interior spaces and provide privacy within a section of a room. As their name suggests, they were originally used as windbreaks in the airy Japanese residences of antiquity. Nowadays they are largely viewed as aesthetic fixtures, but you will still see them in more prosaic use.
