A six-fold panel screen (byobu)

Description:

Japan, signed Fujiwara Eiho Norishige, seal Fujiwara, early 19th c.
109 x 45,5 cm pro Paneel
Ink and colours on paper. A nobleman with ladies on a colourful tiled terrace in the mountains. On the right side of the image, a murmuring stream, with sparsely wooded mountains and a hidden estate in the background. In the distance, blue peaks. On the reverse, monochrome scenes of ploughing and harvesting farmers. Signed: Fujiwara Eiho Norishige, Seal: Fujiwara. This is possibly by Hashimoto Eiho Norishige, active in the early 19th century.
From an important South-German private collection, acquired at Koller Auktionen, Zurich, 23.09.2006, lot 335 - Partially traces of age, partly rest. and water stains especially on the reverse