Images of Japanese Picnics
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gurdymonkeyDetails from a 16th century screen "Genre Scenes of the Twelve Months" Tokyo National Museum. Collection.
Note the curtained off "kitchen" at the right: Boxes and baskets filled with rice cakes and other snacks, kegs of sake, a travel case with sake cups in it, a portable stove (hibachi), serving trays. There's a man slicing fish and one putting food on a tray with chopsticks, while another pours sake from a keg into a pouring pail.
While the ladies are admiring the blossoms (upper detail), musicians play for dancing (lower detail), while trays of of food wait on stands.
Note the curtained off "kitchen" at the right: Boxes and baskets filled with rice cakes and other snacks, kegs of sake, a travel case with sake cups in it, a portable stove (hibachi), serving trays. There's a man slicing fish and one putting food on a tray with chopsticks, while another pours sake from a keg into a pouring pail.
While the ladies are admiring the blossoms (upper detail), musicians play for dancing (lower detail), while trays of of food wait on stands.
Kano Hideyoshi's The Maple Viewers, 16th century, Tokyo National Museum Collection. Again, the men are singing and dancing, while the women are having their own hen party under another tree.
