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Japanese Four-Panel Screen Pheasants, Cherry and Prunus on Gold Leaf
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Colorful Japanese four-panel folding screen on gold leaf decorated with pheasants, cherry, and
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20th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
19th Century Four Panel Kano School Chinese Style Folding Screen or Room Divider
Located in Manhasset, NY
A very well painted four fold Kano School, Chinese influenced, Byobu of a late winter snow with red
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Antique Japanese Two Panel Karashishi Screen, Edo Period, circa 17th Century
Located in Prahran, Victoria
Antique Japanese Kano school two fold screen with a well painted scene depicting a pair of 'shi-shi
Category
Antique Early 17th Century Japanese Edo Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
19th Century Japanese Screen Pair. Flowers
Birds of the Four Seasons
Located in Kyoto, JP
Flowers & Birds of the Four Seasons
Pair of six-fold Japanese Screens. Ink, color, gofun and
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood, Paper
Chinoiserie Asian 4 Panel Silk Byobu Folding Screen or Wall Hanging Brass Accent
Located in Topeka, KS
Stunning vintage Asian or Chinoiserie four panel silk Japanese byobu, folding screen, or wall
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20th Century Japanese Chinoiserie Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Meiji Period Japanese Screen Pair, One Hundred Birds by Hasegawa Gyokujun
Located in Kyoto, JP
, well over 100 birds are represented in this pair of two-fold Japanese screens (the title functions
Category
Antique Early 1900s Japanese Meiji Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk, Wood
Japanese Style Four Panel Screen Spring Birds Singing
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Attractive Japanese style folding four panel byobu screen from the late Showa period. The screen is
Category
20th Century Chinese Showa Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Japanese Two-Panel Gold Leaf Screen by Yoshikawa
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Stunning Japanese two-panel folding screen featuring a gold leaf landscape signed by Yoshikawa
Category
20th Century Chinese Meiji Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass, Gold Leaf
Japanese Asian Four-Panel Byobu Showa Siver Screen Yellow Birds Goldfinch Tree
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous four-panel Japanese Byobu folding silver leaf screen depicting a nature scene with
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood, Paper
Japanese Vintage Green, Violet with Blue Flower Hand Painted 2 Panel Screen
Located in South Burlington, VT
An attractive, expressive, and and vibrant small scale Japanese hand painted two-panel folding
Category
20th Century Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk
Japanese Asian Four-Panel Showa Byobu Nature Pagoda Landscape Pine Tree Screen
Located in Studio City, CA
A gorgeous four-panel Japanese/Asian Byobu folding screen depicting a nature landscape scene
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf
Japanese Style Four Panel Screen Bamboo Waterfall with Magpies
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Large Chinese four panel Japanese style byobu folding screen depicting a waterfall landscape. The
Category
20th Century Chinese Showa Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Japanese Style Four Panel Screen Manchurian Cranes in Pine
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Captivating 20th century Japanese style byobu four-panel folding screen. The screen is titled
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
Japanese Style Four Panel Screen Flowering Prunus with Ducks
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Delightful Japanese style four panel folding byobu screen depicting a pair of mandarin ducks and a
Category
20th Century Chinese Showa Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass, Gold Leaf
A Japanese Six-Panel Painted Screen with Blooming Cherry Blossoms on Gold Leaf
Located in Astoria, NY
An antique Japanese six panel painted folding screen, produced between the late 19th and early 20th
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Early 20th Century Japanese Inspired Screen Black Silk With Gold Embroidery
Located in Rümmingen, BW
19th century. This particular screen’s design draws inspiration from Japanese byobu (folding screens
Category
Early 20th Century Chinoiserie Paintings and Screens
Materials
Brass
19th Century Japanese Tea-Ceremony Screen One Hundred Butterflies by Mori Kansai
Located in Kyoto, JP
One hundred butterflies
Mori Kansai (1814-1894)
Two-fold Japanese tea-ceremony screen
Ink
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Asian Edo Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silver Leaf
Antique Edo Period 6 Panel Folding Screen Depicting Birds and Seasonal Flowers
Located in San Francisco, CA
A fine Edo (Tokugawa) period Japanese antique six panel folding screen in sumi (black ink) and
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Japanese Edo Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Gold Leaf
Louis XV folding screen / paravent, "Asian Birds tapestries", France, Circa 1880
By L
Escalier de Cristal, Gabriel Viardot
Located in VÉZELAY, FR
Louis XV Japanese style folding screen / room divider / paravent, "Asian Birds tapestries", France
Category
Antique 1880s French Japonisme Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Fabric, Wood, Walnut
Hand-Painted Japanese Inspired Screen by Artist Robert Crowder
By Robert Crowder
Located in San Francisco, CA
A tall, beautifully hand-painted on wood panel folding screen of Japanese style by artist Robert
Category
Late 20th Century American Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Art Deco Style Lacquer Painted and Wood Screen with Deer, Late 20th Century
By Jean Dunand
Located in Austin, TX
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The back plain and painted black.
The screen is heavily influenced by Japanese byobu paper folding
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Vintage 1980s Unknown Art Deco Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Copper
Japanese Vintage Folding Screen / Byobu / Abstract Painting / Partition
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
I couldn't identify the author, but it is a folding screen art by a Japanese artist made in 1998
Category
1990s Japanese Arts and Crafts Furniture
Materials
Other
Large Contemporary Japanese Orange Black Gilded Silk Brocade Folding Screen
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Unique exquisite Japanese contemporary two panel "byobu" or folding screen featuring genryoku style
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Decorative Art
Materials
Gold
Japanese Meiji 4-Fold Screen Hand Painted Depicting Birds and Foliage
Located in Kingston, NY
Offered is a Meiji Japanese screen that was created using paintings were likely quite older than
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Furniture
Materials
Wood
Old Japanese Plain and silver Classic&modern checkered 2panel folding screen
Located in Niiza, JP
Plain wood and silver checkered two-panel folding screen
1540×1510mm *Unfolded size
Folded size
Category
20th Century Japanese Furniture
Materials
Paper
Large Japanese Contemporary Red Black Gilded Folding Screen, Raised Silk Brocade
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Unique extraordinary Japanese contemporary "byobu" or folding screen featuring genryoku style
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Decorative Art
Materials
Silk
Japanese Large Contemporary Black Red Gilded Silk Two-Panel Folding Screen
Located in Takarazuka, JP
Japanese contemporary two panel signed "byobu" or folding screen featuring genryoku style
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Ceramics
Materials
Brocade, Silk
Large Japanese Imari Gilt Charger, the Six Immortal Poets, Meiji Period, Japan
Located in Austin, TX
folding screen. The screen is opened in a dramatic manner, slightly akimbo, almost jumping off the dish
Category
Antique Early 1900s Japanese Meiji Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Stunning Japanese Folding Screen
Located in Pasadena, CA
Exceptional, highly detailed six-panel paper folding screen c. late 1800's, resplendent with rich
Category
Antique 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens
Hand-Painted Japanese Folding Screen
Located in Hamburg, DE
The four-panel screen is hand-painted in watercolor on paper covered with square gold leafs. Signed
Category
Late 20th Century Japanese Japonisme Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper, Wood
Large Antique Japanese Folding Screen Painting
Located in Kilmarnock, VA
An elegant late 19th century to early 20th century Japanese painted folding screen depicting white
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens
Six-Panel Japanese Folding Screen with Grapevine, Kanō School
Located in Milano, IT
paper of the screen’s folds.
Although grapes were found in Japan in very early times, it was not until
Category
Antique Mid-17th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Small Japanese Folding Screen with Cityscape
Located in Seattle, WA
A small Japanese four-panel folding screen (byobu) depicting an Edo period cityscape with merchants
Category
Antique 19th Century Japanese Decorative Art
Pair of Japanese Folding Screens with Cranes, Kanō School, 19th Century
Located in Milano, IT
The scene is in typical Kano school style, dominated by a group of cranes in irregular and dynamic positions. The powerful arrangement shows an impetuous river running under and over...
Category
Antique 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Hand Painted Japanese Folding Screen Byobu Floral Painting, Watercolor Gold Leaf
Located in 10 Chater Road, HK
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Traditional folding screens from Japan, known as Byobu - literally “protection from wind”, were originally
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Hand-Painted Japanese Folding Screen Byobu of Lotus Pond and Mandarin Ducks
Located in 10 Chater Road, HK
screen for a distressed effect.
Size: 60" W x 48" H (152cm W x 122cm H)
Traditional folding screens
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood, Paper
Japanese Rinpa School Folding Screen with Poppies, 17th Century
Located in Milano, IT
Six-panel Japanese folding screen representing some poppies on a golden ground. The poppies are all
Category
Antique 17th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Japanese Six Panel Folding Screen, circa 19th Century
Located in Stamford, CT
Late 19th Century Japanese folding screen, ink on paper depicting a mountain scape.
Mounted on
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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Japonisme Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Paper
Japanese Screen
Located in Hudson, NY
Decorative Japanese folding screen, Meiji period, painted on gilded paper, with cranes, a river
Category
Antique 19th Century Japanese Screens and Room Dividers
$6,800
Rare Momoyama Period Japanese Folding Screen with a Field of Pinks, 17th Century
Located in Milano, IT
medieval and early modern Japan, but representations of pinks as a single motif on folding screens are
Category
Antique 17th Century Japanese Wallpaper
Materials
Paper
Japanese Hand Painted Folding Screen
By Sakai Hoitsu
Located in Hudson, NY
Japanese Antique Hand Painted Folding Screen
Six Panels Screen
Plum tree & Bird
Sakai Hoitsu (1761
Category
Antique 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens
Six Fold Japanese Paper Screen
Located in London, GB
Six Fold Japanese Paper Screen. Each panel displays Japanese calligraphy on a cream and gold
Category
Antique 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens
Edo Period Japanese Six-Fold Screen
Located in Paris, FR
Edo period Japanese six-fold screen "Rakuchu Rakugai" depicting views in and around Kyoto with
Category
Antique 1830s Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Edo Period Six Fold Japanese Screen
Located in New York, NY
An unusual and boldly painted 17th Century Japanese screen.
Beautiful green, white and blue
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Wood
Two Fold Japanese Screen with Rabbits
Located in New York, NY
Two-panel Japanese screen with moon and rabbits. Showa period, circa 1930.
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
18th Century Six-Fold Japanese Screen
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful antique screen in a perfect size. The screen features gold leaf clouds, village scenes
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Japanese Six Fold Paper Screen, circa 1880
Located in London, GB
A fine Japanese six fold paper screen decorated with rolling waves, circa 1880. The border in black
Category
Antique 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens
Stunning Japanese Gold Paper Six Fold Screen
Located in London, GB
Japanese gold ground paper six fold screen depicting a male and female peacock beneath a pine tree
Category
20th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Japanese Six-Panel Folding Screen with Lilies
Located in Milano, IT
A very rare screen with oversize lilies behind a bamboo fence. Despite this composition is quite a
Category
Antique Late 17th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Japanese Six Fold Paper Calligraphy Screen - late 19thC
Located in London, GB
A highly decorative Japanese six fold paper screen, late 19th century. Decorated with extremely
Category
Antique 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens
Antique Japanese 19th Century Folding Screen, Room Divider
Located in Vancouver, BC
Japan, 19th century. Two-panel floor screen, heavily carved and pierced frame. Two landscape design
Category
Antique 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens
Exquisite Late 19th Century Japanese Six Fold Screen
Located in London, GB
An exquisite Japanese six fold paper screen, late 19th Century. Beautifully hand painted image of
Category
Antique 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper, Wood
Large Six Fold Japanese Paper Screen Early 20thC
Located in London, GB
Painted paper screen depicting a large Japanese pine, likely a Japanese black pine, with its
Category
20th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper, Wood
Japanese Six-Panel Folding Screen by Hara Zaichu
Located in Milano, IT
commissioned by the imperial family and also the present screen must have been decorating some palace of a
Category
Antique 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Japanese Six Fold Gold Leaf Screen with Pine Trees
Located in London, GB
A wonderful Japanese six fold gold leaf screen depicting pine trees, mountains and a cascading
Category
Antique 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Two Fold Screen with Fans on Silver Leaf
Located in New York, NY
A fabulous large two panel screen with scattered fans of various ages (17th-19th century), applied
Category
Antique 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens
Pair of 19th Century Japanese Six Fold Silvered Paper Screens
Located in London, GB
Pair of highly decorative Japanese six fold silvered paper screens, with green decoration
Category
Antique 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens
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Japanese Folding Screens For Sale on 1stDibs
Find a variety of Japanese folding screens available on 1stDibs. Frequently made of paper, metal and wood, all Japanese folding screens available were constructed with great care. Find 148 antique and vintage Japanese folding screens at 1stDibs now, or shop our selection of 43 modern versions for a more contemporary example of this long-cherished furniture. Japanese folding screens have been made for many years, and versions that date back to the 18th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 21st Century. Japanese folding screens made by Art Deco designers — as well as those associated with Arts and Crafts — are very popular at 1stDibs. Japanese School, Ryosuke Harashima and Kano Tanshin each produced beautiful Japanese folding screens that are worth considering.
How Much are Japanese Folding Screens?
Japanese folding screens can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price at 1stDibs is $7,850, while the lowest priced sells for $248 and the highest can go for as much as $198,390.
Finding the Right Paintings-screens for You
Traditional Asian paintings were often created on scrolls and folding screens. Artisans made screens that could be folded up or spread out by connecting several panels using hinges. Today, antique Asian folding screens and paintings are sophisticated decorative accents that can serve as makeshift partitions to ensure privacy.
The original folding screens were created by Chinese artists. The earliest record of screens comes from the 2nd century B.C., and surviving examples date back to the Ming dynasty. Chinese painting utilizes many of the same tools as calligraphy — these screens were crafted from wood with painted panels featuring striking art or calligraphy that told cultural stories or represented nature and life in the area.
The practice was introduced to Japan, where paintings for screens were made on paper and silk, in the 8th century. These paintings frequently feature subjects such as landscapes, animals, flowers and Buddhist religious themes. Along with screens for tea ceremonies and dance backgrounds, there were screens for use in Shinto and Buddhist temples.
In the 17th century, screens began to be imported to Europe where their popularity grew. Coco Chanel famously collected Coromandel folding screens.
Traditional Asian paintings can make a tasteful addition to any wall, and screens can be used as decoration or, in the case of larger iterations, as an aesthetic way to divide a large room. Browse the selection of antique Asian paintings and screens from a variety of styles and eras on 1stDibs.
Questions About Japanese Folding Screens
- 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022Japanese screen painting is the art of creating byōbu, or Japanese screens. Byōbu vary in subject matter and style. The screens are free-standing, portable and decorated with symbolic images or calligraphy. It is common to find byōbu in pairs with at least two panels. Shop a selection of byōbu on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertAugust 17, 2021Japanese screens are called Byōbu and are made from many panels with beautiful calligraphy and paintings. These folding screens can be a decorative and interesting way to separate rooms in a living space. Find a collection of Japanese screens for sale on 1stDibs.
Lotus GalleryMarch 17, 2021A Japanese low screen was traditionally used while seated upon the floor. The low screen would block wind and drafts, provide limited privacy, and are often decorated with seasonal themes.
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