Interior of a palace next to the beach A set of folding screens (series title), Two parts of a miniature folding screen. View of a palace with courtiers and on the left a beach with pine trees and flying cranes. The courtiers in the palace surround a young pine tree, this was an old tradition on the first day of the new year and was probably originally a fertility ritual. With two poems, screen, folding screen, Ry?ry?kyo Shinsai (mentioned on object), Japan, c. 1825, paper, colour woodcut, h 210 mm ⊙ w 183 mm.