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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...
- 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 ****anese handscroll/scroll Emakimono (lit. "picture scroll"), a horizontal picture scroll...
- Song dynasty celebrated for his depictions of dragons. The Nine Dragons handscroll in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, M****achusetts, United States, bearing...
- 12th-century illustrated handscroll of The Tale of Genji, a National Treasure...
- 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...
- 513–522. Yano, Akiko (2013). "Historiography of the "Phallic Contest" Handscroll in ****anese Art". ****an Review (26): 59–82. JSTOR 41959817. The pertinent...
- 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...
- woodblock print format. While rare, there are also extant erotic painted handscrolls which predate ukiyo-e. Translated literally, the ****anese word shunga...