SUMI-E: Horses Along Shoreline


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Antique Japanese screen-painting in sumi and gold leaf (kinpaku) on paper, depicting a herd of horses variously gamboling, reclining and wading along a shoreline beside a flowering plum, indicative of early spring, mounted as four panel screen (byōbu), with wooden molding.

Origin: Japan
Period: Edo/Tokugawa Period (1615-1868), Mid 19th Century
Dimensions: 42.0 inches high x 96.0 inches wide

Painting 4038