English: Okuni Kabuki-zu Byōbu, the oldest known portrait of Izumo no Okuni. Six-fold screen, color on gold-leafed paper. A collection of Kyoto National Museum. This is a Important Cultural Property of Japan. This screen may have been painted around 1603 (Keichô 8), when Okuni of Izumo (now Shimane Prefecture) performed kabuki odori (“eccentric dances”) on the Noh stage at Kitano Shrine in Kyoto. The painting depicts the performance of the popular Okuni kabuki play, Chaya asobi (“Amusement at the Teahouse”), with the central character holding a sword, a comical performer with a towel around her head, and the teashop owner sitting by the right pillar. The instrumental accompaniment includes flute and drums but not shamisen, indicating an early period of kabuki. The composition and rendering of pine trees are similar to the screen paintings at Myôren-ji Temple, strongly suggesting that this work belongs to the genre paintings of the Hasegawa school.