Yamato-e

Yamato -e (Japanese大 和 絵) In the narrower sense, only the painting of the Heian period (9th -12th century), the aestheticising art of early medieval feudal Japan. Yamato -e His second flowering but found in the Tosa school of the 13th century and can be traced from then on through the whole history of Japanese art.

The painting of the Yamato -e was in contrast to Kara -e, Chinese painting, the exercise without the study of classical Chinese models was not possible.

Yamato -e were first on setting screens ( byobu ) and on paper-covered sliding walls ( Fusuma ). The picture art on them was mainly on two topics limited: on Shiki -e and -e Meisho, ie to the representation of the four seasons with the related parties and on the presentation of the most famous sites. In the Shiki -e was the nature in the Meisho -e human action in the foreground. A third variety of the Yamato -e were rolling or picture books ( Emaki and Soshi -e). Were illustrated novels and legends, the most famous examples are the Genji Monogatari Emaki - that Shigan - Engi Emaki - and Ippen Shonin Eden.

In contrast to the strict Sumi -e the Yamato -e tends to a multiple series of scenes, often with historical reference, full of events and people, making it in its structure similar to the Japanese sentence structure. The Yamato -e reflected in the feudal life of the nobility, in the Kamakura period the glorious deeds of the samurai and extends into its present varieties of the presentation of the here and now of the Japanese people through to colorful abstraction.

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