Research Catalog

Title

Painting in the Yamato style. Translated by John M. Shields.

Author

Ienaga, Saburō, 1913-2002.

Publication

New York, Weatherhill [1973]

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Details

Description

162 pages illustrations (some color); 24 cm.

Series Statement

The Heibonsha survey of Japanese art, v. 10

Uniform Title

• Yamatoe. English
• Heibonsha survey of Japanese art ; v. 10.

Alternative Title

Yamatoe.

Subject

• Yamatoe
• Painting, Japanese
• Painting, Japanese > Heian period, 794-1185
• Japan > In art
• Japan

Genre/Form

• works of art.
• Art.
• Œuvres d'art.

Note

• Translation of Yamatoe.
• Translation of: 大和絵.

Contents

pt. 1. The origins of Yamato painting: Kara-e influences -- Kara-e Japanized -- The Japanization of continental culture -- Debut of writing in Japan -- pt. 2. Yamato painting during the Heian period -- pt. 3. Four-seasons painting: The seasons in Japan -- Shiki-e themes -- Lost paintings -- Famous-place paintings -- pt. 4. Picture scrolls: Link with literature -- Heian-period picture scrolls -- Color versus line -- pr. 5. Yamato painting from the middle ages: Toward new cultural forms -- The demand for portrait painting -- New themes -- Scrolls of the new Buddhist sects -- Pictorial records of the times -- The Yamato-e tradition in later times -- pt. 6. Yamato painting: a detailed study: The beginnings of Japanese painting -- Four-seasons panels and screens -- Yamato-e artists -- Picture scrolls and books -- The Genji Monogatari and the Sanjuroku-nin Shu -- Decorated sutras -- The Shigi-san scroll tradition -- New historical trends -- Higi-ga and Rokudo-e -- The development of portraiture -- Realistic landscapes -- Picture scrolls of the middle ages -- The inheritors of the Yamato-e tradition -- Appendix: Extant picture scrolls.

ISBN

• 0834810166
• 9780834810167

LCCN

73003489

OCLC

• ocm00591550
• 591550
• SCSB-347277

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library