The handscroll is a long, narrow, horizontal scroll format in East Asia used for calligraphy or paintings. A handscroll usually measures up to several...

Nine Dragons (九龍圖卷; Jiǔlóngtú juǎn) is a handscroll painting by Chinese artist Chen Rong. Painted in 1244, it depicts the apparitions of dragons soaring...

emaki). The Night Attack on Sanjō Palace (Sanjō-den yo-uchi no maki) handscroll is the most prominent of the three extant Illustrated Scrolls and belongs...

"rolled thing") may refer to: Makimono, a horizontal type of Japanese handscroll/scroll Emakimono (lit. "picture scroll"), a horizontal picture scroll...

no Mitsukuni. In the image, the princess recites a spell written on a handscroll, summoning a giant skeleton. It rears out of a black void, crashing its...

simplified Chinese: 韩熙载夜宴图; pinyin: Hán Xīzaì Yèyàn Tú) is a painted handscroll attributed to Chinese 10th-century artist Gu Hongzhong. The painting depicts...

12th-century illustrated handscroll of The Tale of Genji, a National Treasure...

Song dynasty celebrated for his depictions of dragons. The Nine Dragons handscroll in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, bearing...

513–522. Yano, Akiko (2013). "Historiography of the "Phallic Contest" Handscroll in Japanese Art". Japan Review (26): 59–82. JSTOR 41959817. The pertinent...

woodblock print format. While rare, there are also extant erotic painted handscrolls which predate ukiyo-e. Translated literally, the Japanese word shunga...

江行初雪圖 (Jiāng xíng chūxuě tú) Artist Zhao Gan Year 10th century Medium Handscroll Dimensions 25.9 cm x 376.5 cm Location National Palace Museum, Taipei...

(源氏物語絵巻), also called The Tale of Genji Scroll, is a famous illustrated handscroll of the Japanese literature classic The Tale of Genji, produced during...

清明上河图; traditional Chinese: 清明上河圖; pinyin: Qingming Shanghe Tu) is a handscroll painting by the Song dynasty painter Zhang Zeduan (1085–1145) and copied...

contains a "lively and provocative" analysis. In the 13th century, a handscroll of the diary was produced, the Murasaki Shikibu Nikki Emaki. The scroll...

featuring a scene from the novel based on the 12th-century illustrated handscroll. Since a 1 November 1008 entry in The Diary of Lady Murasaki is the oldest...

treasures are the Genji Monogatari Emaki, three Heian period illustrated handscrolls of The Tale of Genji, dating to the 1130s. Along with one other scroll...

Handscroll depicting scenes from the Great Fire of Meireki (kept at the Edo-Tokyo Museum)...

These are colorful portraits where irony and sarcasm prevail. The 1591 handscroll entitled "The 16 Luohans" exemplifies such work. He also produced 500...

the end of the Heian period, including emakimono, or long illustrated handscrolls. Varieties of emakimono encompass illustrated novels, such as the Genji...

played in the presence of the shōgun. Detail from a Japanese illustrated handscroll of The Tale of Genji. Heian period, 12th century CE. A Korean couple playing...

mythology, with magical functions in human world Nine Dragons (painting), a handscroll by Chinese artist Chen Rong Nine-Dragon Wall, screen walls featuring nine...

painting of Minamoto no Yoritomo, first Shogun of Japan, (14th century AD) Handscroll silk painting called 'Fascination of Nature' by Xie Chufang depicting...

visual art. One of the oldest and most famous examples is the 16th-century handscroll Hyakki Yagyō Zu (百鬼夜行図), erroneously attributed to Tosa Mitsunobu, located...

Section of a handscroll depicting a scene from the "Bamboo River" chapter of the Tale of Genji, c. 1130...

painting was executed using tempera on silk in the form of a Chinese handscroll. It was largely done in a European style in accordance with the rules...

flight from a forest. Much of the war is depicted in an e-maki narrative handscroll, the Gosannen kassen emaki, which was created in 1171. The work is owned...

phonetic syllabary and writing system. A late 12th century narrative handscroll in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston depicting Kibi's...

pictures are often on scrolls that can be hung on a wall (kakemono), handscrolls (emakimono) that are read from right to left, or on a folding screen...

(化物尽繪, "Illustrated Index of Supernatural Creatures"), is a Japanese handscroll of the Edo period depicting 35 bakemono from Japanese folklore. The figures...

The vertical hanging scroll was the classic format; the long horizontal handscroll format tended to be associated with professional coloured painting, but...