Emaki
Emaki (Jap.). A picture scroll. A long scroll, viewed from right to left, contains a series of pictures, often with the text that illustrates a story.
Its motifs range from the secular to the religious. Jigoku zōshi (the Scroll of Hells), made in the 12th cent., is a religious emaki, in which the gruesome scenes of hells based on Genshin's Ōjōyōshū (The Essentials for Salvation) are vividly illustrated. Temples and shrines supplied legends and miracle stories, and as a result of the spread of Buddhism in the Kamakura period, the lives of exemplary people were added to its themes.
Its motifs range from the secular to the religious. Jigoku zōshi (the Scroll of Hells), made in the 12th cent., is a religious emaki, in which the gruesome scenes of hells based on Genshin's Ōjōyōshū (The Essentials for Salvation) are vividly illustrated. Temples and shrines supplied legends and miracle stories, and as a result of the spread of Buddhism in the Kamakura period, the lives of exemplary people were added to its themes.
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