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context: painting > early painting > buddhist painting
E-ingakyo
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part of the e-ingakyo scroll |
This work, from 735 A.D., is the first narrative scroll painting in Japanese history. E-ingakyo apparently translates as The Illustrated Sutra of Past and Present Karma, which is a lot. I think it's rather sweet looking, and the linework and colours aren't far from an awful lot of later painting.