"Kano school" Japanese paintings on show in U.S.

A curator of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, explains on Feb. 13, 2015, a gold leaf folding screen of the Kano school of painting, a dominant style of Japanese painting for some 400 years from the late 15th century, during the first such exhibition in the U.S. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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