Japanese Scroll Scroll

Japanese Tiger Wall Silk Scroll Painting

Stuff to know• Japanese• Started from 10th millennium B.C.,

which was when people began to reside in East Asia

• There are two different types of scrolls: Chinese landscape scroll and Japanese narrative scroll.

• Chinese landscape scroll: is culture’s greatest contribution to the history of painting

• Japanese narrative scroll: is more of a story-telling painting

Iris Scroll

Differences

Japanese Buddhist Sansui Ga

Different Artist• Fujiwara Takanobu:

1142-1205• Tawaraya Sotatsu: 1600-

1640

Portrait of Yoritomo by: Fujiwara Takanobu

Dated in 1606- poem page mounted as a hanging scroll

References

• http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/hi_tawa.htm 2nd picture

• http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/tawaraya_sotatsu.html 2nd artist

• http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/fujiwara_takanobu.html 1st artist

• http://www.artfund.org/artsaved/search/artist/t/4845/Takanobu 1st picture