THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
July 15, 2021 at 07:00 JST
A Kaitakudo Art Co. representative holds a small version of the Battle of Sekigahara “byobu” folding screen in front of a large version in Gifu. (Yoshinobu Itakura)
GIFU--Depictions of the Battle of Sekigahara, the decisive conflict of the feudal era that ushered in the Tokugawa Shogunate, are perhaps best known from artwork on a “byobu” folding screen housed at the Sekigahara Town History and Folklore Museum. [Read More]
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