Japanese Art
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...is called kakemono. The long, narrow horizontal scroll ( emakimono ), unrolled in the hands, usually illustrates a narrative...most esteemed portrait painters of the age. Most of the fine emakimono that survive today are from the Kamakura period. These scrolls...