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People of Various Trades / Right screen

17th century (Edo period)

Sakai City Museum
Sakai-shi, Osaka, Japan

Painted in the last half of the 17th century by a Kano school painter. Thirty seven occupations are elaborately depicted on circular silk cloths.
From top-right to bottom: leather craftsmen, rice vendor and monkey charmer, yarn maker, salt maker and vendor, prayer-beads maker, embroiderers, fanmaker, plasterers, papermaker, tie-dyer, blacksmiths, noodle maker, sawyer, strolling musicians and earthenware vendor, chaps maker, mason

Details

  • Title: People of Various Trades / Right screen
  • Date Created: 17th century (Edo period)
  • Original Source: Sakai City Museum
  • Medium: pair of six-panel folding screens / color on silk

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