Interior of a traditional Japanese living-room.
The living-room contains an assembly of furnishings such as one would find in a refined, wealthy household from the second half of the Edo period (1603-1867). The floor is covered with straw mats (tatami), and life was – and still is – lived sitting on the floor. At the back are four sliding doors (fusuma) covered with paper and painted on either side in ink and light colours. The side illustrated here shows a landscape with three Chinese scholars engaged in a Chinese board-game and a fourth man with his servant approaching the group. On the back is a painting of a pheasant in a lightly sketched landscape. The pictures were painted and signed by Maruyama Ôkyo (1733-95) and can be dated to about 1780.>>
Interior of a traditional Japanese living-room;
Acc.no. OA 22352a L – 22352d L
Photo: A. Dreyer.