[ 337 ] Geography and the World GED ® TEST SOCIAL STUDIES FLASH REVIEW _____________ • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • The following illustration is a six-panel folding screen with ink on paper drawn in the early 1500s by Soami (1472– 1525), a famous Japanese painter. This part of a pair of screens depicting the seasons shows fall on the right and winter on the left. Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., 1941. Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. A historian could use this screen to support which of the following positions? a. Empty space is important in Japanese art. b. Japan is a densely populated country. c. Samurai used screen paintings to display their wealth. d. Japanese art followed European traditions.