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Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing the cityscape of Osaka during the Toyotomi Era (1583-1615),Momoyama Period. Schloss Eggenberg (Eggenberg Castle Museum) Graz, Austria. Panel 2 - The Sumiyoshi festival procession. Sumiyioshi deities are carried in mikoshis, portable shrines, to the port of Sakai and back. Members of the sword nobility. Toyotomi Hideyoshi had restricted the bearing of arms to the samurai class. Two participants in the procession form a dragon.
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Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing t...

Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing the cityscape of Osaka during the Toyotomi Era (1583-1615),Momoyama Period. Schloss Eggenberg (Eggenberg Castle Museum) Graz, Austria. Panel 2 - The Sumiyoshi festival procession. Sumiyoshi deities are carried in mikoshis, portable shrines, to the port of Sakai and back. Members of the sword nobility; two participamts in the procession form a dragon.
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Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing t...

Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing the city of Osaka during the Toyotomi Era (1583-1615),Momoyama Period. Schloss Eggenberg (Eggenberg Castle Museum) Graz, Austria. Panel 4 - Man carrying a basket with fish across the Kyobashi bridge.
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Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing t...

Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing the city of Osaka during the Toyotomi Era (1583-1615),Momoyama Period. Schloss Eggenberg (Eggenberg Castle Museum) Graz, Austria. Panel 4 - Two men stepping off a bridge, one is a samurai. Upon taking control, Hideyoshi decreed that all peasants be disarmed completely; he required samurai to leave the land and take up residence in the castle towns. This solidified the class system for the next 300 years.
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Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing t...

Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing the city of Osaka during the Toyotomi Era (1583-1615),Momoyama Period. Schloss Eggenberg (Eggenberg Castle Museum) Graz, Austria. Panel 5 - A noblewoman walks near the outer wall of the Third Baily. Her companion holds a sunshade over her head. Top left two falconers with their birds. Falconry was the most popuar pastime of the warring class. Toyotomi Hideyoshi had many falconers in his service, who held an extremely prestigious position at court.
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Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing t...

Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing the city of Osaka during the Toyotomi Era (1583-1615),Momoyama Period. Schloss Eggenberg (Eggenberg Castle Museum) Graz, Austria. Panel 5 - Two falconers walk with their birds.Falconry was the most popular pastime of the warring class and Toyotomi Hideyoshi had many falconers in his service, who held an extremely presigious position at court.
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Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing t...

Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing the city of Osaka during the Toyotomi Era (1583-1615),Momoyama Period. Schloss Eggenberg (Eggenberg Castle Museum) Graz, Austria. Panel 8 - Iwashimizu Hachimangu Shrine, dedicated to the Shinto god Hachiman, god of war of the samurai noblemen. In the foreground two falconers with their birds, one hunter with his dog.
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Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing t...

Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing the city of Osaka during the Toyotomi Era (1583-1615) in the Momoyama Period. Schloss Eggenberg (Eggenberg Castle Museum) Graz, Austria. Panel 8 - A falconer with his bird. The pail with water on the roof in the foreground is used as fire=protection.
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Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing t...

Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen depicting the cityscape of Osaka during the Toyotomi Era (1583-1615) in the Momoyama Period. Housed in Schloss Eggenberg (Eggenberg Castle Museum) Graz, Austria. Panel 8 - A hunter and his dog.
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Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen depicting...

Gardeners working in Nara Park, famous for its deer who, in the evening, return to their pens at the sound of a trumpet.
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Gardeners working in Nara Park, famous for its deer who, in the evening, return...

A deer in Nara Park. in the evening, the deer return to their pens at the sound of a trumpet.
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A deer in Nara Park. in the evening, the deer return to their pens at the soun...

Milon of Crotone,aging athlete,devoured by the lion. Aging Milon tried to tear apart a tree,but was caught in the stem.A lion devoured the helpless old man. Marble,H:270 cm 1670-1682
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Milon of Crotone,aging athlete,devoured by the lion. Aging Milon tried to te...