Yamato-e
Yamato-e is a style of Japanese painting inspired by Zen Buddhism and developed in the late Heian period. It is considered the classical Japanese style, as opposed to the later ukiyo-e and the earlier Chinese kara-e.
The Yamato-e often tell narrative themes with text along with them, show the beauty of nature, e.g. famous places (meisho-e ), and the four seasons (shiki-e ). The pictures are non-symbolic and have the objective of depicting the beauty in nature, as Buddha’s incarnation. The pictures are often on scrolls that can be hung on a wall ( kakemono) or handscrolls that could be read from right to left with the accompanied story or on a folding screen (byoubu) or panel (shouji). Although they received their name from the Yamato period , Yamato-e pictures rather stand for a style and are not restricted to a particular period. Although the most famous artists painted in suiboku style in the Muromachi period, this was not characteristic of early pictures.
Yamato-e had a great influence on the Rimpa and ukiyo-e styles, as well as the nihonga .
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