Ko-byobu or short folding screen in two panels, ornamented with a design of shelving rocks against the red glow of the setting sun. Of black, red and gold lacquers inlaid with quail eggshell. Signed on the lower right corner with an incised signature by the artist: Yoshihide Saku or Made by Yoshihide (Nanbu Yoshihide, 1920 – 2002). Showa 33 or 1958.

Titled: Yubae or Sunset Glow, this screen was made for exhibition at the 14th Nitten in 1958, and it is illustrated in the Nittenshi, volume 21, page 228, number 252.

From the Inami district in Toyama Prefecture, Nanbu Yoshihide was born to a family of shrine carpenters and carvers who had worked on the reconstruction of Zuisenji temple during the Edo period. While still studying lacquer under the Kyoto artist Hirao Den’emon, he volunteered for military service in 1938. Family affairs forced him to drop out of officer training school, and to return to Toyama to take over the family lacquer ware business. He was first accepted into the government-sponsored exhibitions with the 6th Nitten in 1950, where he showed a short lacquer folding screen. He continued to exhibit another 27 times, including at the 7th – 9th Nitten in 1951 – 1953 and at the 13th – 14th in 1957 – 1958. In 1989, he was decorated by the government, receiving the Oju Hosho or Yellow Ribbon Medal.