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Watanabe Shikō

Flowers and Trees of the Four Seasons

early to mid-1700s
Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, gold, silver, and gilding on paper

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One plant in these screens, tumeric, or ukon in Japanese, is found in Okinawa.

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