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
