Lacquer screen

Meiji period, 1868-1912, Japan

Height: 21.9 cm 8.62 inches, width: 11.8 cm 4.65 inches (each panel)

A togidashi two panel screen. The main interior panels depict a well- known scene from a famous Japanese print by Hokusai. People walking in rain are decorated in silver and gold, with two imitation wood grain panels below. The main panels on the reverse with butterflies against a red lacquer ground, wood grain panels below, and the whole with a frame sprinkled in mother of