Hirafuku folding screen returns to Japan after 70 years

TOKYO, Japan - A visitor watches a folding screen presented to Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini by the late Japanese industrialist Kishichiro Okura before World War II which was shown to the media Aug. 3 at a Tokyo hotel after almost 70 years abroad. The screen, called ''Araiso'' (Rocky Beach) and painted by Japanese artist Hyakusui Hirafuku (1877-1933), was presented to Mussolini after being displayed at an exhibition in Rome of Japanese art organized by Okura in 1930. It depicts a bird on a bare rock against a gold background.

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