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  • Gold-leaf Japanese painting detail of a seated courtier beside a tiled palace roof under pine trees.
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unknown - The Rebellions of the Hōgen and Heiji Eras - 17th century v21 - STICKER Vinyl Kiss-Cut Decal

unknown - The Rebellions of the Hōgen and Heiji Eras - 17th century v21 - STICKER Vinyl Kiss-Cut Decal

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unknown - The Rebellions of the Hōgen and Heiji Eras - 17th century v21 - STICKER Vinyl Kiss-Cut Decal

This is a Japanese folding screen painting that stages the chaotic battles of the Hōgen and Heiji Rebellions, two mid-12th-century uprisings that shifted Japan's power from the imperial court to the warrior class.

Visual Elements & Composition

Gold leaf fills the ground and catches the light across the whole surface, setting the scene against dark green pines and tan brown tones. Vermilion accents and pale grey tiled roofs mark the palace architecture, which is laid out in rectangular bays that structure the composition like panels across a screen. A courtier sits in a wooden palace building, and a bow leans against a wall nearby, pointing the eye toward the martial story beneath the calm surface.

Meaning & Symbolism

The Hōgen and Heiji Rebellions were rival clan struggles that ended the aristocracy's dominance and let the warrior class supersede imperial authority. The screen records the rise of the Minamoto and Taira families, whose rivalry led to the shogunate system. Painted in the 17th-century Edo period, it reflects a warrior elite that commissioned classical military epics to anchor its status in the origin stories of the samurai legacy.

Framing the Rebellions on a Sticker

A kiss-cut sticker is cut to its own outline, so the image sits as a single shape on whatever surface it joins. The screen's gold, green and vermilion read as a compact, self-contained scene, letting the palace, pines and bow hold their own on a laptop, journal or notebook. Fans of Japanese history and samurai culture will find the Hōgen and Heiji story in every curve of the cut.

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