Folding screens are typically adorned with elegant designs based on traditional themes of natural beauty in Japanese aesthetics, such as flowering trees and a moonlit sky. Screens certainly did not portray something as simple as straw handicrafts common folk used in their everyday lives.
That's why master dye artist Keisuke Serizawa surprised everyone when he created "Bandori-zu Yonkyoku Byobu" (Four-fold screen with bandori design), a folding screen depicting straw backpack supports hanging from a thick black beam.
