Edo period (1615-1868), late 17th/early 18th century, with later repainting Festival Day at the Kitano Shrine; a six-panel folding screen, ink, mineral pigments, and gold paint over gold leaf on paper, framed and glazed, depicting a lively crowd of early spring visitors to the Kitano Tenmangu Shrine in northwestern Kyoto, identified by white and red plum blossoms in the inner courtyard and elsewhere in the shrine precincts, emblematic of Sugawara no Michizane (845–903), the great statesman, scholar, and poet revered after his death as the Shinto god of learning, Tenman Tenjin or Tenjin; the shrine buildings surrounded by pine trees; a grove of sotetsu (cycad or sago palm) and plum in a smaller courtyard at the back of the complex; the visitors including a broad spectrum of contemporary Kyoto society: predominantly samurai of different ranks; a group of ladies at left, perhaps from the local Kamichishiken pleasure quarter, one of them holding a brightly painted umbrella; numerous shrine priests in orange robes; and a smaller number of women and children; the decorative features of the buildings rendered in fine detail; unsigned; framed and glazed. Overall: 293cm x 96.2cm (115 5/8in x 37 7/8in); image: 274.5cm x 77.7cm (108in x 30½in).