



I thought this was pretty cool at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. It depicts the return of the emperor to his palace. The big bright yellow full of a swarm of little figures all in a bustle is full of life and movement along a coiling and clearly articulated road. Across the folds of this massive screen, Emperor Kokaku returns in 1790 to his official residence in Kyoto, rebuilt after a fire burnt down the old one.