Sydney Long, Decoration or Sadder than a single star that sets at twilight in a land of reeds, sadder than a single star, 1899
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Imanaka Soyu
A six-fold screen, painted in ink and colour on a gold silk ground, depicting a Summer scene of a forest of tall birch trees with mountain lilies and red nouzen kazura peering from among the blooming green overgrowth and underbrush, a woodpecker is shown in the top left corner. Taisho Showa period, 1886-1959
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