What are Japanese panels?

Japanese panels are components of large decorative folding screens called byōbu, which translates to “wind wall.” The screens traditionally function as room dividers and feature calligraphy and decorative painting. On 1stDibs, you can shop a range of decorative Japanese panels.

Japanese Panels

Asian Gold Leaf Panel Art

Wood Screen

Japanese Painting Gold Leaf

Asian Screens And Panels

Japanese Silk Brocade

20th Japan Painting On Silk

19th Century Japanese Screen

Japanese Mid Century Painting

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Antique 19th Century Japanese Paintings

Materials

Paper, Canvas, Gouache

Large End of 19th Century Japanese Panel

$4,153

Japanese Segment Panel

By Japanese Studio

Located in Milton, DE

This is a segment panel and one of the most magnificent pieces of its type that I have seen. The

Category

Antique 1890s Japanese Victorian Antiquities

Materials

Gold Leaf

Japanese Segment Panel

$2,150

Japanese Two Panel Screen

Located in Hudson, NY

Japanese two panel screen, Showa period. Dimensions: 40.5" W closed. 1.5" D closed. 71" H

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20th Century Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens

Japanese Two Panel Screen

$8,500

Japanese Two-Panel Screens

Located in Hudson, NY

Japanese two-panel screens. Showa period. Dimensions: 36"W closed 67"H 1.5"D closed 72

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20th Century Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens

Japanese Two-Panel Screens

$15,000

Japanese Six-Panel Screen

Located in Hudson, NY

Japanese six-panel screen. Showa period. Dimensions: 18"W closed 42.5"H 4"D closed 106"W

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20th Century Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens

Japanese Six-Panel Screen

$4,500

Two-Panel Japanese Screen

Located in Hudson, NY

Two-panel Japanese screen from the Showa period. Dimensions: 39.5" W closed. 74" H. 1.5" D

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20th Century Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens

Two-Panel Japanese Screen

$8,500

Japanese Two-Panel Screen

Located in Hudson, NY

Japanese two-panel screen from the Showa period. Dimensions: 67.5" H. 33" W closed. 1.25

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20th Century Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens

Japanese Two-Panel Screen

$5,500

Two Panel Japanese Screen

Located in Hudson, NY

Two panel Japanese Screen from the Showa period depicting pheasant on a rock overlooking a pond

Category

20th Century Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens

Materials

Paper

Two Panel Japanese Screen

$4,500

Six Panel Japanese Screen

Located in Hudson, NY

Showa period Japanese screen.

Category

20th Century Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens

Six Panel Japanese Screen

$15,000

A 19th Century Black Lacquered and Ormolu-Mounted Bureauplat

By Jacques Dubois

Located in Armadale, Victoria

with conforming feigned drawers, each short side with large foliate mount in framed japanned panel with

Category

Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Bronze

A 19th Century Black Lacquered and Ormolu-Mounted Bureauplat

$70,300

Japanese Two Panel Taisho Screen

Located in Hudson, NY

Japanese two panel Taisho screen. Ink and color on paper of two young girls in a field of daisies

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20th Century Japanese Taisho Paintings and Screens

Japanese Two Panel Taisho Screen

$8,500

Six Panel Japanese Folding Screen

Located in Hudson, NY

Six panel Japanese folding screen. Ink and color on paper depicting raging river over rocks. One of

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20th Century Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens

Materials

Paper

Six Panel Japanese Folding Screen

$25,000

Japanese Six Panel Folding Screen

Located in Hudson, NY

Japanese Six Panel Folding Screen. Ink and color on paper depicting raging river over rocks. This

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20th Century Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens

Materials

Paper

Japanese Six Panel Folding Screen

$25,000

Antique Japanese Six-Panel Screen

Located in New York, NY

A beautiful full sized Japanese six-panel screen. Gold leaf background. Design of trees, rocks

Category

Antique 1750s Japanese Paintings and Screens

Materials

Gold Leaf

Antique Japanese Six-Panel Screen

$18,000

Edo Six-Panel Japanese Screen

Located in Paris, FR

Beautiful six leaves screen with a golden background decorated with flowering branches in a river running landscape. It bears the signature of Minenobu Kano (1668-1708).

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Antique 1780s Japanese Paintings and Screens

Materials

Gold Leaf

Edo Six-Panel Japanese Screen

$29,668

Vintage Japanese Cotton Handwoven Indigo Panel

Located in New York, NY

Large panel, probably from a futon cover, assembled from smaller pieces. The panels features a

Category

20th Century Japanese Textiles

Vintage Japanese Cotton Handwoven Indigo Panel

$575

Six-Panel 18th Century Japanese Screen

Located in Stamford, CT

A beautiful six-panel 18th century Japanese hand-painted screen very large needs some restoration.

Category

Antique Late 18th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

Six-Panel 18th Century Japanese Screen

$4,500

18th Century Six-Panel Japanese Screen

Located in Stamford, CT

Stunning 18th century Japanese screen hand-painted great detail. Needs some restoration.

Category

Antique 18th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

18th Century Six-Panel Japanese Screen

$4,500

Japanese Two-Panel Screen with Fans

Located in New York, NY

A late 18th-early 19th century two panel screen with scattered fans. This screen has an interesting

Category

Antique 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

Japanese Two-Panel Screen with Fans

$8,800

A four-panel Japanese screen (byobu)

Located in Winter Park, FL

A medium-size six panel screen decorated with scenes from the famous Japanese novel The Tale of

Category

Antique 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

Materials

Brocade, Ink

A four-panel Japanese screen (byobu)

$5,500

Japanese Kano School Multi Panel Screen

Located in San Francisco, CA

A magnificent six panel screen with design of pine forest islands (possibly inspired by views from

Category

Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

Materials

Paper

Japanese Kano School Multi Panel Screen

$8,800

19th Century Four-Panel Japanese Screen

Located in Paris, FR

Four panels Japanese screen with wooden fence. Smooth hill covered with white chrysanthemum flowers

Category

Antique 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

Materials

Gold Leaf

19th Century Four-Panel Japanese Screen

$49,842

Japanese Six-Panel Screen with Children

Located in New York, NY

A beautifully painted late 18th- early 19th century 6 fold screen depicting Chinese children playing in a landscape. Featuring distant mountains, pine tree, rocks and a stream. Th...

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Antique 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

Materials

Paper

Japanese Six-Panel Screen with Children

$12,000

19th Century Japanese Hat on Lacquer Panel

Located in New York, NY

An interesting and decorative 19th century Japanese Jingasa (traveling hat), with brown background

Category

Antique 19th Century Japanese Decorative Art

Materials

Wood

19th Century Japanese Hat on Lacquer Panel

$3,400

Japanese 8 Panel Screen of Flowering Peonies

Located in New York, NY

Japanese 8-panel screen of flowering peonies A remarkable and rare low screen with each panel

Category

Antique 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

Materials

Gold Leaf

Japanese 8 Panel Screen of Flowering Peonies

$22,000

Japanese Six-Panel Folding Screen, 20th Century

Located in Paris, FR

Very contemporary ink on plain paper ground calligraphy screen. Several unknown seals. Japan

Category

Mid-20th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

Materials

Paper

Japanese Six-Panel Folding Screen, 20th Century

$30,854

Two-Panel Japanese Screen with Scattered Fans

Located in New York, NY

A beautiful two-fold antique Japanese screen with silver leaf background, and design of scattered

Category

Early 20th Century Japanese Paintings

Materials

Paper

Two-Panel Japanese Screen with Scattered Fans

$2,800

Screen Panel Tiger Painting Japan, 19th Century

Located in Monterey, CA

Painting of tiger and bamboo Origin: Japan Age: circa 1869 Size: 31" x 63.5" H.

Category

Antique 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

Materials

Silk

Screen Panel Tiger Painting Japan, 19th Century

$4,800

Japanese Lacquer and Bronze Temple Ranma Panel

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

Japanese Temple Ranma (Panel) lacquered with many coats of lacquer which created this rich dark

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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Lacquer

Materials

Bronze

Japanese Lacquer and Bronze Temple Ranma Panel

$1,715

Japanese Calligraphy Painting, India Ink on Wooden Panel

Located in Brussels, BE

Beautiful Japanese abstract contemporary painting using calligraphy. 20th century. India ink on

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Vintage 1980s Japanese Contemporary Art

Materials

Wood

Japanese Calligraphy Painting, India Ink on Wooden Panel

$1,898

Japanese Eight Panel Screen with Falling Cards

Located in Seattle, WA

Unusual eight panel folding screen (byobu) with scattered playing cards. The cards fall from the

Category

Vintage 1930s Japanese Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Paper, Wood

Japanese Eight Panel Screen with Falling Cards

$10,500

Japanese Couched Gold and Silk Embroidered Dragon Panel

Located in Hudson, NY

Large Japanese Couched Gold and Silk Embroidered Dragon Panel.

Category

Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Textiles

Materials

Silk

Japanese Couched Gold and Silk Embroidered Dragon Panel

$2,800

Antique Japanese Six Panel Screen with Battle Scenes

Located in New York, NY

A finely painted Japanese six panel screen. Separate paintings of battle scenes with warriors on

Category

Antique 19th Century Japanese Screens and Room Dividers

Antique Japanese Six Panel Screen with Battle Scenes

$9,600

Byobu four-panel folding screen, Japan Showa era

Located in Saverne, Grand Est

Four-panel byobu decorated with a mountain landscape, hand-painted on gilt silk and surrounded by a

Category

Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens

Materials

Silk

Byobu four-panel folding screen, Japan Showa era

$1,210

A pair of six-panel Japanese screens (byobu)

Located in Winter Park, FL

Each screen similarly decorated with a continuous scene of Tartar archers hunting, some on horseback and others on foot accompanied by dogs, charging deers and boars in a mountainous...

Category

Antique 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

Materials

Ink

A pair of six-panel Japanese screens (byobu)

$20,000 / set

A pair of six-panel Japanese screens (byobu)

Located in Winter Park, FL

Each screen similarly decorated with a continuous scene depicting flying cranes and others standing along a lake bordered by pine trees.

Category

Antique 19th Century Japanese Paintings

Materials

Ink

A pair of six-panel Japanese screens (byobu)

$18,000 / set

Hand Painted Japanese Silk Panel / Screen with Cherry Blossoms

Located in Northbrook, IL

Large-Scale 19th Century Japanese Painting/ Screen/ Panel Hand Painted on Silk in Ink and Mineral

Category

Antique 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

Materials

Ink

Hand Painted Japanese Silk Panel / Screen with Cherry Blossoms

$12,500

Antique Japanese Kano School Hand-Painted Six-Panel Screen

Located in Concord, MA

Early Edo period (17th century) Japanese six-panel screen hand-painted with birds and floral

Category

Antique 17th Century Japanese Edo Paintings and Screens

Materials

Silk

Antique Japanese Kano School Hand-Painted Six-Panel Screen

$11,000

Antique Japanese Hand-Painted Four-Panel Folding Table Screen

Located in Miami, FL

Antique Japanese hand-painted four-panel folding table screen depicting birds, bamboo and flowering

Category

Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Paintings and Screens

Materials

Paper, Silk, Wood

Antique Japanese Hand-Painted Four-Panel Folding Table Screen

$275

Japanese Two-Panel Silver Leaf Screen with Autumn Grasses

Located in Seattle, WA

Japanese two-panel folding screen, or byobu, depicting hagi (bush clover) and obana (flowering

Category

Early 20th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

Materials

Silver Leaf

Japanese Two-Panel Silver Leaf Screen with Autumn Grasses

$8,500

Japanese Five Panel Indigo Cotton Ikat Futon Cover, circa 1900

Located in Sausalito, CA

Japanese five panel, cotton futon cover called Kurume-kasuri, from Kurume region, Fukuoka

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Antique Early 1900s Japanese Meiji Tapestries

Japanese Five Panel Indigo Cotton Ikat Futon Cover, circa 1900

$6,500

Late 19th Century Japanese Watercolor Painting Paper Panels Signed and Framed

Located in Blackpool, Lancashire

A wonderful unique Japanese hand painted paper panel in a later lacquered frame It features

Category

Early 20th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

Late 19th Century Japanese Watercolor Painting Paper Panels Signed and Framed

$787

Late 19th Century Japanese Watercolor on Paper Panels Signed and Framed

Located in Blackpool, Lancashire

A wonderful unique Japanese hand painted paper panel in a later lacquered frame It features

Category

Early 20th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

Late 19th Century Japanese Watercolor on Paper Panels Signed and Framed

$787

Japanese 6-Panel Painted Gilt Bamboo Leaf and Clouds Screen

Located in Sarasota, FL

A 6-panel screen in elegant green and white bamboo on gilt.

Category

Vintage 1930s Japanese Meiji Paintings and Screens

Materials

Gold Leaf

Japanese 6-Panel Painted Gilt Bamboo Leaf and Clouds Screen

$1,200

Japanese Nanga School Ink on Paper Six-Panel Folding Screen

Located in New York, NY

Japanese Nanga school six-panel screen, inks on paper in the idealized Chinese literati mode

Category

Antique 19th Century Japanese Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Paper

Japanese Nanga School Ink on Paper Six-Panel Folding Screen

$16,000

Oriental Japanese Meji Period Large Imari Pattern Platter With Panelled Scenes

Located in London, GB

An extremely large Japanese Imari platter or charger Meiji period with paneled scenes and jeweled

Category

Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Japonisme Ceramics

Materials

Porcelain

Oriental Japanese Meji Period Large Imari Pattern Platter With Panelled Scenes

$6,161

Hand-Painted Japanese Screen Panel of Pidgeon

Located in 10 Chater Road, HK

The pidgeon painting of this single-panel screen is hand-painted in watercolor, on rice paper over

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Paintings and Screens

Materials

Wood, Paper

Hand-Painted Japanese Screen Panel of Pidgeon

$560

Japanese Screen Black Ivory Hand Painted Blossoms Branches Birds Six Panels

Located in Monterey, CA

This extraordinary delicately hand-painted six-panels screen of birds, blossoms and branches is

Category

Antique Early 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

Materials

Silk

Japanese Screen Black Ivory Hand Painted Blossoms Branches Birds Six Panels

$12,600

Mid 20th Century Japanese Four-Panel Folding Screen - Mountain Village on Lake

Located in Charlotte, NC

An Asian Japanese four-panel folding screen. Untitled, (Mountain Village on Lake). Unsigned, artist

Category

Mid-20th Century Japanese Anglo-Japanese Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Metal

Mid 20th Century Japanese Four-Panel Folding Screen - Mountain Village on Lake

$1,495

Japanese 6-Panel Screen of Cranes Amidst Pine Trees by Water

Located in New York, NY

A Japanese 6-panel screen of Cranes Amidst pine trees by Water Edo period, 18th century This

Category

Antique 18th Century Japanese Edo Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Paint

Japanese 6-Panel Screen of Cranes Amidst Pine Trees by Water

$48,000

Late 19th Century Japanese Watercolor on Paper Panels Scenes from a Palace

Located in Blackpool, Lancashire

A wonderful unique Japanese hand painted paper panel in a later lacquered frame It features very

Category

Early 20th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

Late 19th Century Japanese Watercolor on Paper Panels Scenes from a Palace

$1,088

18th Century Japanese Painted and Gold Leaf Four-Panel Folding Screen

Located in New York, NY

Edo Period Japanese four-panel screen, mineral pigments painted on gold leaf of an abstract

Category

Antique Mid-18th Century Japanese Edo Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Gold Leaf

18th Century Japanese Painted and Gold Leaf Four-Panel Folding Screen

$18,000

Japanese Two-Panel Screen with Scenes at the Pleasure Quarters, 18th Century

Located in Milano, IT

In the pleasure districts, the stringent codes were meant to be forgotten. In this painting, some clients are watching from outside the teahouse, while some are entering, one of them...

Category

Antique 18th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

Materials

Paper

Japanese Two-Panel Screen with Scenes at the Pleasure Quarters, 18th Century

$20,876

1920s Japanese 4 Panel Screen Chrysanthemum Birds Heron

Located in Sarasota, FL

Stunning 1920s 4 panel screen.

Category

Vintage 1920s Asian Meiji Paintings and Screens

Materials

Silk

1920s Japanese 4 Panel Screen Chrysanthemum Birds Heron

$500

Japanese Two Panel Screen of a Tragopan Standing on Rocks by Plum Blossoms

Located in New York, NY

A Japanese two panel screen of a Tragopan standing on rocks by Plum Blossoms 18th or 19th century

Category

Antique 19th Century Japanese Edo Paintings and Screens

Materials

Paper

Japanese Two Panel Screen of a Tragopan Standing on Rocks by Plum Blossoms

$19,500

Impressive Japanese Six-Panel Fan Screen, Meiji/Showa Period, Early 20th Century

Located in Haarlem, Noord-Holland

modern look and feel. Japan 1900-1920 Good condition consistent with age and use. Measures: H X W

Category

Early 20th Century Japanese Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Silk

Impressive Japanese Six-Panel Fan Screen, Meiji/Showa Period, Early 20th Century

$6,823

A Dutch secretaire à abattant with Japanese laquer panels

Located in Hilversum, NL

four octagonal tapering feet, gilt bronze mounts. (restorations) The Japanese lacquer panels were

Category

Antique 18th Century and Earlier Dutch Louis XVI Secretaires

Materials

Satinwood, Lacquer

A Dutch secretaire à abattant with Japanese laquer panels

$53,402

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Japanese Panels For Sale on 1stDibs

An assortment of Japanese panels is available at 1stDibs. Each of these unique Japanese panels was constructed with extraordinary care, often using paper, wood and metal. Find 2271 antique and vintage Japanese panels at 1stDibs now, or shop our selection of 65 modern versions for a more contemporary example of this long-cherished furniture. Japanese panels have long been popular, with older editions for sale from the 18th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 21st Century. Japanese panels bearing mid-century modern or modern hallmarks are very popular at 1stDibs. Many Japanese panels are appealing in their simplicity, but Japanese Studio, Bela Silva and Paul Montgomery produced popular Japanese panels that are worth a look.

How Much are Japanese Panels?

The average selling price for at 1stDibs is $3,797, while they’re typically $1 on the low end and $5,807,050 highest priced.

Questions About Japanese Panels

What are Japanese panels?
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1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022
Japanese panels are components of large decorative folding screens called byōbu, which translates to “wind wall.” The screens traditionally function as room dividers and feature calligraphy and decorative painting. On 1stDibs, you can shop a range of decorative Japanese panels.

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