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- The handscroll is a long, narrow, horizontal scroll format in East Asia used for calligraphy or paintings. A handscroll usually measures up to several...
- 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...
- 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...
- painting of Minamoto no Yoritomo, first Shogun of ****an, (14th century AD) Handscroll silk painting called 'Fascination of Nature' by Xie Chufang depicting...
- 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...
- 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...
- "The Tale of Great Minister Ban") is a late 12th-century emakimono (handscroll painting) depicting the events of the Ōtemmon Conspiracy, an event of...
- Imperial Guard Cavalry"), is an emakimono or emaki (painted narrative handscroll) from the 13th century, in the Kamakura period of ****anese history (1185–1333)...
- 清明上河图; traditional Chinese: 清明上河圖; pinyin: Qīngmíng Shànghé Tú) is a handscroll painting by the Song dynasty painter Zhang Zeduan (1085–1145) and copied...
- (化物尽繪, "Illustrated Index of Supernatural Creatures"), is a ****anese handscroll of the Edo period depicting 35 bakemono from ****anese folklore. The figures...