Priceless Japanese screens repaired with Victorian train timetables go on display

A pair of large Japanese paintings sent to Queen Victoria that were later patched up with old train timetables are to go on public display for the first time.
Conservators preparing one of the two screen paintings for display in the exhibition Japan: Courts and Culture – Royal Collection Trust / (c) Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2022
The large screens are two survivors from a diplomatic gift from the Japanese shogun (military leader) in 1860 of eight screens, and had been thought to have