Hanging scroll/絵画(Kaiga)

絵画(Kaiga)

Hanging scroll

Starting with Chinese paintings, various Japanese and Chinese paintings

11.絵画

花鳥画(Kacho-ga)

Kacho-ga is Japanese painting with motifs such as flowers, birds, plants, insects, aquatic life, and small animals. It is one of the genres originally systematized in China.

山水画(Sansui-ga)

Sansui-ga is a painting of mountains, rivers, trees, and rocks. In a broad sense, it is considered a landscape painting, but it is characterized by expressing the landscape as a utopia rather than the actual landscape.

神仏画(Shinbutsu-ga)

Buddhist and Shinto paintings Shinto and Buddhist paintings are paintings that depict gods and Buddha. In the first place, the hanging scroll was made for the purpose of "hanging and worshiping". At that time, there were few people who could read letters, so it spread.

水墨画(Suiboku-ga)

Ink painting Suibokuga is a painting that uses only ink. It is characterized not only by lines, but also by expressing shading and light and shade with gradation techniques.

Bokuseki

1.Bokuseki

Handwriting written by a Zen monk.

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墨跡
Kyogiri

2.Kyogiri

cut Buddhist scriptures.

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経切
Old calligraphy

3.Kohitsu

Handwriting of calligraphers from the Heian period to the Kamakura period.

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古筆
Kaishi

4.Kaishi

Paper on which poetry and other writings are written.

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懐紙
News

5.Shosoku

letters of the deceased.

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消息
Shikishi

6.Shikishi

Square-shaped paper on which waka poetry, calligraphy, etc. are written.

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色紙
Eisou

7.Eisou

originally referred to the draft of an verse, but later the style of waka and haikai.

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詠草
Tanzaku

8.Tanzaku

Narrow writing paper for writing waka poems.

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短冊
Kara-e

9.Karae

Chinese-style paintings that came from China or were made by Japanese people.

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唐絵
Gasan

10.Gasan

Sentences or poems written in the margins of a picture.

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画賛
Painting

11.Kaiga

Starting with Chinese paintings, various Japanese and Chinese paintings

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絵画
Iemoto's lexical

12.Iemoto's lexical

Schoolmaster's lexical

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