A painted door (sugido)


19th centuryA single cedar wood door panel decorated in ink, color and gold pigment and set within a wide black lacquered frame, now supported by a custom metal stand; painted to one side with a summer willow tree towering over gabion baskets securing a grassy river bank bordered by reeds, reversed by a bamboo grove with a pair of song birds perched on flowering morning glory vines entwining a few leafy stalks, all rendered in moriage and applied with gold flecks. 67 3/4 x 37 1/2in (172.5 x 95.1cm)