title: Worlds Seen and Imagined: Japanese Screens from the Idemitsu Museum of Arts
author: Taizo Kuroda
description: Book by Kuroda, Taizo, Takeuchi, Melinda, Yamane, Yuzo
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  _Present-Day Japan_
  
  
  
  
  
  FRIDAY, MARCH 28
  
  
  
  
  
  _Tokyo_
  
  
  
  
  
  Nori rings the doorbell for the third time, then peers through the rusting
  metal bars that crisscross the pawnshop’s display window. She squints into the
  darkness beyond the red “silk” wedding kimono and a pair of questionable
  samurai swords.
  
  
  
  
  
  Nothing moves but a fly, trapped against the glass. If she were taller, she
  might be able to see past the display and get a better idea what kind of place
  this is. Too bad she takes after her grandmother. She reaches to press the
  bell for a fourth time when a light flicks on deep inside, silhouetting a
  figure in the hallway beyond. She steps back to the door as two locks _thwap,_
  and it opens with a sticky sound. In the narrow crack allowed by the security
  chain, a woman’s lined face appears.
  
  
  
  
  
  “We’re closed.”
  
  
  
  
  
  “I know. But my grandmother told me that Miura-san might be very interested in