It recently emerged that the fusuma were created by a painter from the noted Kano school of art between the late Azuchi-Momoyama Period (1568-1600) and the early Edo Period (1603-1867).
The photo’s sender, Arata Shimao, a former professor of Japanese art history at Gakushuin University ... their door-pulls to open and close the fusuma. Yamashita concluded the two groups of ...