Nara ehon
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Nara ehon ("Nara Illustrated Books") were a type of hand-painted books produced in Kyoto in the early 1600s. Closely related works known as Nara emaki ("Nara handscrolls") also existed in the handscroll format. They are "noted for their bold and brightly coloured illustrations," in a style related to that of the Tosa school.[1]
Despite their name, the books had no connection to the city of Nara, or the Nara period.
References
- Ishikawa Toru, talk at Discovering the Japanese Collection at Brigham Young University Symposium, March 25, 2016.
- ↑ John Carpenter, "By Brush or Block Printing: Transmitting Cultural Heritage in Pre-Modern Japan," Orientations 38:8 (2007), 63.
