Festival Scenes
1657
unspecified
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Festival Scenes is a 1657 unspecified by Unknown, a Baroque work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see two small folding screens packed with tiny figures—sumo wrestlers, jugglers, dancers, and men hauling a festival float. At first it looks like one big party, but each scene is actually a separate moment from different festivals. The artist crammed them together like a scrapbook of Edo street life. If you like these busy scenes, look up *Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)* next.
