ANONYMOUS, MACHI-ESHI STYLEEdo period (1615-1868), mid/late 17th centuryCherryblossom Time at Kiyomizu Temple, Kyoto, a six-panelbyobu (folding screen) painted in ink, mineral colours, gold, and gold leaf on paper with silk borders mounted on a wood lattice and within a black lacquer frame; theposition centred on the Kiyomizu Temple on the third and fourth panels from the right, its distinctive gantry structure painstakingly delineated, the platform with an animated group of male and female courtiers, priests, and attendants; to the left the temple's three-storey pagoda, other temple buildings and figures at far left and right, travellers and rural vignettes in the foreground, all framed by oxidized silver clouds, some embellished with squares of gold foil.Overall: 123cm x 368.8cm (48 7/16in x 145 3/16in); image: 108cm x 352.4cm (42½in x 138 11/16in).Provenance: This detailed painting, with its animated scenes of life in eastern Kyoto at cherry-blossom time, is the right-hand half of a pair of screens of a laterRakuchu rakugai (literally, 'Inside and Outside Kyoto') type that deviates from the established pattern, omitting some of the city's most famous buildings such as Nijo Castle and the Daibutsuden and focusing instead on other famous sites including the newly rebuilt Kiyomizu Temple, then as now one of the city's most popular tourist destinations.