- Figure 2/Figure 3 Munakata Shikō, Sōhi no Zu [The Image of Two Goddesses], 1958. Two panel screen, 138.0×69.5 for each panel copyright of Munakata Shikō Memorial Museum of Art. Folding screen, painting by Munakata Shikō and calligraphy by Kaneko Ōtei to capture a part of diary entries from Tanizaki’s The Key, employing different writing systems (with the use of hiragana for the top screen, and katakana for the bottom screen to enact different writing systems employed by wife and husband-narrator, respectively, as originally written by Tanizaki) and different calligraphic styles accordingly.
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