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The stairs pass an open window with a view of the courtyard. The view is reflected onto a
painted wood panel the shape of an open fan along the inside wall --and the scene painted on the panel shows Hsi Wang Mu, the
legendary Princess with her attendants. (Kano Yasukuni, 1717-1792) (View at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1994)
Copyright, 2000