Japanese Shikishi Art Board Vtg Art Painting Nihonga Picture Display Zodiac Roos vanity box Scratches and chips

Scratches and  chips

5 cm long x 32 cm wide x 6 cm high

Oishi-Tengudo

The handle is a seahorse design

Japanese Shikishi Art Board Vtg Art Painting Nihonga Picture Display Zodiac Roos vanity box Scratches and chipsVtg Japanese Art board Shikishi This is a vintage Japanese Shikishi paper painted zodiac rooster. There are three basic types of shikishi papercalligraphy (poem, haiku) only, calligraphy plus pictures, and pictures only. Since the Heian period, people have been writing waka and haiku on Shikishi paper (various sizes), but in the Meiji period, they started using paper of the current size. Recently, Shikishi paper is being used as paper to write