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 Japan, (14th century AD) Handscroll silk painting called 'Fascination of Nature' by Xie Chufang depicting...

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...

Imperial Guard Cavalry"), is an emakimono or emaki (painted narrative handscroll) from the 13th century, in the Kamakura period of Japanese history (1185–1333)...

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...

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...

Jigokuzōshi, Handscroll, Heian-Kamakura Period, 12th century, Nara National Museum...

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

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

The Jigoku-zoshi ("Handscrolls of Buddhist Hell") is a late 12th-century Japanese scroll (emakimono, 絵巻物), depicting the 8 great hells and the 16 lesser...

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...

(伴大納言絵詞; "The Tale of Great Minister Ban") is a late 12th-century emakimono (handscroll painting) depicting the events of the Ōtemmon Conspiracy, an event of...

artist Qiu Ying was once paid 2.8 kg (100 oz) of silver to paint a long handscroll for the eightieth birthday celebration of the mother of a wealthy patron...

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

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...

exhibit East Asian painting and calligraphy. They are different from handscrolls, which are narrower and designed to be viewed flat on a table. Hanging...

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

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...

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

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...

(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...

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

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

Illustrated handscrolls, emakimono (絵巻物, lit. 'illustrated scroll'; also emaki-mono), or emaki (絵巻) is an illustrated horizontal narration system of painted...

盛世滋生圖; pinyin: Shèngshì Zīshēng Tú), is an 18th-century scroll painting (handscroll) created in 1759 by the Chinese court painter Xu Yang. Depicting the bustling...

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

Monogatari Emaki (寝覚物語絵巻) is an emakimono or emaki (painted narrative handscroll) from the Heian period of Japanese history (794–1185). It is an illuminated...

the treaty stipulated would be opened to visits by American ships. A handscroll with pictorial record from the Japanese side of US Commodore Matthew Perry's...