This screen was bought a year ago from a wonderful second-hand shop in Hazelbrook, Blue Mts for a song. It was described as a 'Japanese Nouveau screen' which I didn't quite understand. The images are of the hare, crab, quail and tortoise but I haven't been able to exactly decypher the script. It doesn't look like either Japanese or Chinese. More sleuthing is underway. The reason it didn't come home with us a year ago was because I couldn't bear the thought of facing customs officials at midnight so it has, at long last, come to Dunedin.
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So were the customs officials okay with your screen?
They asked me what it was, I said "it's a screen". "An outdoor one?" he asked. "No, an indoor one." I replied. "Just put it on the Xray machine" and all was fine. No unwrapping to see if the stored beetle eggs had hatched in the meantime but I would have happily unwrapped it. I had had such a hard time previously bringing back my large Buddha canvas with the official attacking the wrapping with a pair of scissors!I protested that it was canvas and fragile so could I unwrap part of it and she said 'no'. But then let me go!
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