Have you ever looked at alandscape paintingand imagined it coming to life?

The original artwork was made in the 1620s and belonged to the Lord Ii of Hikone.

Shigeta further brings the scene to life by transforming the 19th-century painting into a digitally animated loop.

Animated Battle of Sekigahara by Yusuke Shigeta

ForSekigahara-Sansui-zu-Byobu, Shigeta used pixel animation to reconstruct the battle, just as its depicted on the folding screen.

Animated Battle of Sekigahara by Yusuke Shigeta

Japanese screen depicting the Battle of Sekigahara, 1854 (Photo viaWikimedia Commons, Public Domain)