By TADAYUKI ITO/ Staff Writer
October 6, 2024 at 07:00 JST
A group of four paintings on traditional sliding doors stored at the British Museum, which portray birds and flowers in autumn and winter from right to left. They likely comprise part of themed piece of four other drawings preserved at the Miyakoshi family home in Japan to form an eight-picture set of screens to represent all four seasons. This photo was created by processing the image material provided by the British Museum in part. ((C) The Trustees of the British Museum)
A simple request to examine a centuries-old artwork led to a stunning discovery: the paintings on “fusuma” sliding doors owned by a long-established family in northern Japan were deemed to be missing parts of a priceless set in the possession of the British Museum in London. [Read More]
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