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    Illustrated handscrolls, emakimono (絵巻物, lit. 'illustrated scroll', also emaki-mono), or emaki (絵巻) is an illustrated horizontal narration system of painted...
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    literally "Animal Caricatures"), is a famous set of four picture scrolls, or emakimono, belonging to Kōzan-ji temple in Kyoto, Japan. The Chōjū-giga scrolls...
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    Heiji Monogatari Emaki (category Emakimono)
    Heiji Ekotoba"; also translated as the "Heiji Rebellion Scrolls") is an emakimono or emaki (painted narrative handscroll) from the second half of the 13th...
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  • may refer to: Makimono, a horizontal type of Japanese handscroll/scroll Emakimono (lit. "picture scroll"), a horizontal picture scroll Makimono (sushi)...
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    identify Japanese animation. Emakimono and shadow plays (kage-e) are considered precursors of Japanese animation. Emakimono was common in the eleventh century...
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    and was often depicted as a bird or a child in Japanese literature and Emakimono. Shikigami are conjured beings, made alive through a complex conjuring...
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  • for tsukumogami in this sense dates to a Tenpō period otogizōshi, an emakimono called the Tsukumogami Emaki. According to this emaki, a tool, after the...
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  • works themselves. The most accredited etymology of the word comes from an emakimono, a type of painted hand scroll, titled "Yamai No Soushi" (Scroll of Illness)...
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    and the 14th century Ōeyama ekotoba (大江山絵詞) is the oldest surviving emakimono (picture scroll) depicting Shuten-dōji. Shuten-dōji has been regarded...
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    to describe comics produced from animation cels. Manga originated from emakimono (scrolls), Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga, dating back to the 12th century. During...
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