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Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing the citys of Osaka during the Toyotomi Era (1583-1615),Momoyama Period. Schloss Eggenberg (Eggenberg Castle Museum) Graz, Austria. Panel 8 - a building of the Iwashimizu Hachimangu shrine, dedicated to the Shinto god Hachiman, protector of the Imperial Court in Kyoto and the god of war of the samurai noblemen.
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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 - Daigoji Temple, damaged during the civil war and completely rebuilt by Hideyoshi and his son Hydeyori. Cherry trees in bloom. In 1598, Hideyoshi held a famous Cherry-Blossom Viewing Party, attended by over 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 showing the city of Osaka during the Toyotomi Era (1583-1615),Momoyama Period. Schloss Eggenberg (Eggenberg Castle Museum) Graz, Austria. Panel 8 - The Phoenix Hall in the Byodoin Temple (completed 1053). Right corner: cherry trees in bloom. Cherry blossoms are highly symbolic in Japan; their great beauty and quick end symbolizing man's life span. Hideyoshi held a Cherry Blossom Viewing Party attended by over 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 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...

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 - People walking towards the bridge leading to the Byodoin Temple complex. A commercial boat on the river Yodo, cherry trees in bloom. Cherry blossoms are highly symbolic in Japan, their great beauty and early end reminiscent of man's life span. Toyotomi Hideyoshi once held a Cherry Blossom Viewing Party attended by over 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 showing the cityscape of Osaka during the Toyotomi Era (1583-1615) in the Momoyama Period. Schloss Eggenberg (Eggenberg Castle Museum) Graz, Austria. Panel 8:bridge leading to the Phoenix Hall (completed 1053) in the Byodoin Temple complex.
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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. Schloss Eggenberg (Eggenberg Castle Museum) Graz, Austria. A traditional 8-panel folding screen or byobu, it measures 182 cm (hight) and 480 cms (length). The screen was bought by prince Johann Seyfried von Eggenberg from Dutch merchants around 1660. It was dismanteld in the town-house of the family in Graz, Styria, around 1754 and the panels were brought to the country seat of Eggenberg, when the "Piano Nobile" was renovated. The paintings were individually embedded into the walls of the "Indian Room", Indian Rooms having become highly fashionable in the 18th century,. They were surrounded by "Chinoiseries" from a local painter. The panels are to be read from right bottom to left top.
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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. Schloss Eggenberg (Eggenberg Castle Museum) Graz, Austria. A traditional 8-panel folding screen or byobu, it measures 182 cm (hight) and 480 cms (length). The screen was bought by prince Johann Seyfried von Eggenberg from Dutch merchants around 1660. It was dismanteld in the town-house of the family in Graz, Styria, around 1754 and the panels were brought to the country seat of Eggenberg, when the "Piano Nobile" was renovated. The paintings were individually embedded into the walls of the "Indian Room", Indian Rooms having become highly fashionable in the 18th century,. They were surrounded by "Chinoiseries" from a local painter. The panels are to be read from right bottom to left top.
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Osakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing t...

Spartan Othriades,dying, ca.1778 RF 1768 23,5 x 35 x 26 cm
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Spartan Othriades,dying, ca.1778 RF 1768...

Saint Matthew evangelist and the angel; from the rood screen in Chartres Cathedral.2nd quarter 13th. Stone,64,5 x 50,1 cm
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Saint Matthew evangelist and the angel; from the rood screen in Chartres...

Dying gladiator, 1779 Marble 52 x 98 cm MR 2006
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Dying gladiator, 1779 Marble 52 x 98 cm...

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...