James Ulak, former senior curator of Japanese art, National Museum of Asian Art, narrates how the fans of Tawaraya Sōtatsu’s Scattered Fans (F1900.24) screen each depict scenes from the llustrated Legends of the Kitano Tenjin Shrine handscroll hand scroll (Metropolitan Museum of Art). He explains how Sōtatsu breaks down the linear narrative of a scroll, playing with time—like what Picasso did in the twentieth century.