Irises at Yatsuhashi (Eight Bridges), 八橋図屏風, Edo period (1615–1868), after 1709, Japan, Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on gold leaf on paper, Image (each screen): 64 7/16 in. x 11ft. 6 3/4 in. (163.7 x 352.4 cm), Screens, Ogata Kōrin (Japanese, 1658–1716), The stately, vertical forms of irises set against an angular bridge that sweeps diagonally across both screens refer to an episode in The Ise Stories (Ise monogatari). Exiled from Kyoto after an affair with a high-ranking court lady, the story’s protagonist stops at Yatsuhashi, a place where a stream branches into eight channels, each with its own bridge
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