Research Catalog

Title

Storytelling in Japanese art / Masako Watanabe.

Author

Watanabe, Masako.

Publication

New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, ©2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Description

viii, 112 pages (some folded) : color illustrations, color map; 21 x 23 cm.

Summary

• Presents 17 classic Japanese stories as told through 30 illustrated handscrolls ranging from the 13th to 19th centuries.
• Nearly as old as humanity itself is the impulse to tell and illustrate stories. In Japan, the narrative drive has been expressed both in sweeping literary sagas (such as the celebrated Tale of Genji) an din long, detailed, beautiful hand scrolls. Storytelling in Japanese Painting presents seventeen classic Japanese stories--tales romantic and horrifying, epic and meditative--as told through 30 remarkable scrolls, ranging from the 13th to 19th centuries. Among them are the supernatural Great Woven Cap; the story of the valiant Peach Boy and his battle against the ogres; the 11th-century psychological novel The Tale of the Genji; and the political allegory Tale of a Strange Marriage. Each scroll is accompanied by a brief relation of the tale being illustrated, while the book's introduction discusses the history and tradition of storytelling in Japanese art. A series of multiple gatefolds allows many of these scrolls to be appreciated in detail, while preserving the sweep and grandeur of these complex, colorful, evocative works of visual and narrative wonder.

Series Statement

[Metropolitan Museum of Art publications]

Uniform Title

Metropolitan Museum of Art publications

Subject

• Honʼyaku iin shachū Japan
• Scrolls, Japanese > Exhibitions
• Storytelling in art > Exhibitions
• Narrative painting, Japanese > Exhibitions
• Narrative painting, Japanese
• Scrolls, Japanese
• Storytelling in art
• Malerei
• Narrativität
• Erzählung
• Emaki
• Stellschirm
• Japan

Genre/Form

• exhibition catalogs.
• Exhibition catalogs.
• Catalogues d'exposition.

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Nov. 29, 2011-May 6, 2012.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-112).

Contents

Illustrated legends of Kitano Shrine / Kitano tenjin engi -- The legend of the origin of Kumano Shrine / Kumano honji -- The story of the ascetic En no Gyōja / En no Gyōja -- The great woven cap / Taishokan -- The tale of Urashima Tarō / Urashima Tarō -- The nun who lost two sons at the Battle of Yashima =/ Yashima nikō monogatari -- The drunken demon / Shuten dōji -- The tale of Giō / Giō monogatari -- The new piece / Shinkyoku / The battles of the twelve animals / Jūnirui gassen -- A long tale for an autumn night / Aki no yo naga monogatari -- The tale of Genji / Genji monogatari -- The tale of mice / Nezumi no sōshi shesse monogatari -- Tale of a strange marriage / Konkai zōshi.

ISBN

• 9781588394408
• 1588394409
• 9780300175905
• 0300175906

OCLC

• ocn767533367
• 767533367
• SCSB-1621127

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library