Capitalscapes: Folding Screens and Political Imagination in Late Medieval Kyoto
Capitalscapes: Folding Screens and Political Imagination in Late Medieval Kyoto by Matthew Philip McKelway
English | Mar. 14, 2006 | ISBN: 082482900X | 297 Pages | PDF | 42 MB
English | Mar. 14, 2006 | ISBN: 082482900X | 297 Pages | PDF | 42 MB
Following the destruction of Kyoto during the civil wars of the late fifteenth century, large-scale panoramic paintings of the city began to emerge. These enormous and intricately detailed depictions of the ancient imperial capital were unprecedented in the history of Japanese painting and remain unmatched as representations of urban life in any artistic tradition.