Sparse Shadows, Flying Pearls: A Japanese Screen Revealed

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Sparse Shadows, Flying Pearls: A Japanese Screen Revealed

56 pages paperback colour

This publication profiles the pair of six-fold screens by the Japanese artist Unkoku Tôeki (1591–1644) in the Collection of the Queensland Art Gallery. These seventeenth-century screens depict two Chinese poets, Li Bai (701–62) and Lin Bu (967–1028), and their attendants, amidst an imagined Chinese landscape. Richly illustrated with works from the Gallery’s Collection and various Australian and overseas institutions, Sparse Shadows, Flying Pearls: A Japanese Screen Revealed interprets the iconography of the Tôeki screens against the backdrop of the dynamic and competitive political matrix of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Japan.

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