A 19th century Japanese 6-panel table screen or byobu, depicting what is thought to be the Gion Matsuri Festival, depicting a young crowned boy sitting in the cental float, with the sacred red cord he was to cut to inaugurate the parade shown below, to the right of the main float is a ship carrying a red-haired demon presenting a pot to a Samurai, beneath a carriage with a praying mantis sitting on top, watercolour, 35 x 90.5cm (image)