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context: painting > early painting > buddhist painting
Jigoku-Zoshi scroll of hell
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the torments of hell |
This is Dante's Inferno in Japan, in the 13th Century. We are taken through many levels of hell, its torments described in text and pictures, including details of what crimes get what punishment. An extraordinarily brutal and grotesque work, in a phase of such things around that time.