• The handscroll is a long, narrow, horizontal scroll format in East Asia used for calligraphy or paintings. A handscroll usually measures up to several...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    12th-century illustrated handscroll of The Tale of Genji, a National Treasure...
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    Song dynasty celebrated for his depictions of dragons. The Nine Dragons handscroll in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, bearing...
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    513–522. Yano, Akiko (2013). "Historiography of the "Phallic Contest" Handscroll in Japanese Art". Japan Review (26): 59–82. JSTOR 41959817. The pertinent...
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    woodblock print format. While rare, there are also extant erotic painted handscrolls which predate ukiyo-e. Translated literally, the Japanese word shunga...
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    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...
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    (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...
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    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...
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  • "rolled thing") may refer to: Makimono, a horizontal type of Japanese handscroll/scroll Emakimono (lit. "picture scroll"), a horizontal picture scroll...
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    contains a "lively and provocative" analysis. In the 13th century, a handscroll of the diary was produced, the Murasaki Shikibu Nikki Emaki. The scroll...
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    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...
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    Handscroll depicting scenes from the Great Fire of Meireki (kept at the Edo-Tokyo Museum)...
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    These are colorful portraits where irony and sarcasm prevail. The 1591 handscroll entitled "The 16 Luohans" exemplifies such work. He also produced 500...
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    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...
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    painting of Minamoto no Yoritomo, first Shogun of Japan, (14th century AD) Handscroll silk painting called 'Fascination of Nature' by Xie Chufang depicting...
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    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...
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    Section of a handscroll depicting a scene from the "Bamboo River" chapter of the Tale of Genji, c. 1130...
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  • 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...
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  • mythology, with magical functions in human world Nine Dragons (painting), a handscroll by Chinese artist Chen Rong Nine-Dragon Wall, screen walls featuring nine...
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    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...
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    phonetic syllabary and writing system. A late 12th century narrative handscroll in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston depicting Kibi's...
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    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...
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    the end of the Heian period, including emakimono, or long illustrated handscrolls. Varieties of emakimono encompass illustrated novels, such as the Genji...
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    The vertical hanging scroll was the classic format; the long horizontal handscroll format tended to be associated with professional coloured painting, but...
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    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...
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  • (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...
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