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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 cityscape of Osaka during the Toyotomi Era (1583-1615) in the Momoyama Period. Housed in Schloss Eggenberg (Eggenberg Castle Museum) Graz, Austria. Panel 4 - A samurai entering the Kyobashi bridge. During the Sengoku period it had become commin for peasants to bome wariors or for samurai to farm due to the constant uncertainty by the lack of a centralized government. Upon taking control, Hideyoshi decreed that all peasants be disarmed. Only samurai were permitted to bear arms but had 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 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 6 - The Yodo river, Paradise bridge, part of the First Baily, the inner district with Toyotomi's castle.
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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 6 - Street scene with bridge and a cherry tree. Cherry blossoms are highly symbolic in Japan; their great beauty and quick end reminding of man's life span. Hideyoshi held a famous Cherry Blossom Viewing Party attended by 1300 women.
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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 6 - Paradise bridge alludes to the Buddha Amida's "Pure Land", a paradise into which all believers desire to be reborn. The bridge was only located here from 1596 to 1600, then was dismantled and integrated into Toyotomi Hideyoshi's mausoleum in Kyoto. A man carrying a tray with food.
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Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen depicting...

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 6 - Paradise bridge alludes to the Buddha Amida's "Pure Land", a paradise into which all believers desired to be reborn. The bridge was located here from 1596 to 1600 only, then was dismantled and integrated into Toyotomi Hideyoshi's mausoleum in Kyoto. Two men carrying trays with food.
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Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen depicting...

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 6 - Paradise bridge alludes to the Buddha Amida's "Pure Land", a paradise into which all believers desire to be reborn. The bridge was located here from 1596 to 1600 only, then was dismantled and integrated into Toyotomi Hideyoshi's mausoleum in Kyoto.
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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 6 - Part of the Inner Baily. The corners are fortified by a massive wall and defence towers.
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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 7 - Passing the fence of the Inner Baily (built 1583-85) The lavish private and public palaces of the Toyotomi clan are surrounded by a massive wall.
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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), Momoyama Period. Schloss Eggenberg (Eggenberg Castle Museum) Graz, Austria. The Byodoin Temple complex with its gardens and cherry-trees represents Buddah Amida's paradise on earth.
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Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing t...