Yukio Lippit, professor of history of art and architecture, East Asian Art Program, Harvard University, explains that people in the Edo period (1603–1868) would have been seated on the floor and surrounded by screens, a totally different experience from looking at art inside a museum. Seated in front of a screen, Sawaragi Noi, art historian, Tama Art University, explains how he feels like a small animal looking up at the flowers.