Illustrated Manuscript Books - 絵入り写本
Some manuscript books have a number of beautifully colored pictures. These books were probably made so that the reader could enjoy the pictures as well as the text. The following exhibit shows both kansubon and sasshibon.写本の中には、美しく彩色された多数の絵を持つものがあります。本文とともに、絵を鑑賞することを目的に作られているのでしょう。ここでは、巻子本と冊子本それぞれの例を展示します。
Emaki (Illustrated Scrolls) - 絵巻
Emaki is made based on stories or setsuwa as kansubon by splicing legends and pictures alternately. Many emaki books were created from around the Heian period. Some books only have pictures with no legends. In any case, these are books focusing on pictures.物語や説話等を題材に、詞書と絵を交互に貼り継いで巻子本とした絵巻が、平安時代以降多数製作されました。詞書がなく絵のみのものもあり、いずれにしても絵を重視した本と言えます。
Emaki (Illustrated Scrolls) - 絵巻
Ban Dainagon Ekotoba - 伴大納言絵詞
Nara Emaki - 奈良絵巻
"Emakimono" that were produced during the early to mid-Edo period, featuring a painting style similar to that of the horizontal Nara ehon. Many of them illustrate stories as their subject matter.江戸初期から前期にかけて製作された絵巻のうち、横型奈良絵本のような画風の絵を持ったもの。多くは物語を題材とする。
Emaki (Illustrated Scrolls) - 絵巻
Tosa Emaki - 土佐絵巻
A scroll produced in the early Edo period, featuring stories and military tales as its subjects, characterized by intricate brushwork and vibrant color schemes.江戸前期に製作された、物語や軍記などを題材とし、精緻な描法と鮮やかな色遣いを持った絵を持つ絵巻。
Eirisasshishahon (Illustrated Sasshi Manuscript Books) - 絵入り冊子写本
Later than emaki, manuscript sasshibon books with many pictures were also produced. Nara ehon is representative in this category.絵巻より年代は遅れますが、絵を多く含む冊子の写本も作られました。その代表的なものが奈良絵本です。
Eirisasshishahon (Illustrated Sasshi Manuscript Books) - 絵入り冊子写本
Nara Ehon - 奈良絵本
Illustrated sasshibon-style books primarily about a story that were often made from the end of the Muromachi period to the early Edo period. They are categorized into portrait recchoso books and landscape fukurotoji books. The former often have pictures drawn by minute brushwork with brilliant colors, while the latter have many simple and intimate pictures.室町末期から江戸前期にかけて多数製作された、主に物語を題材とした冊子体の絵本。列帖装の縦型本と袋綴の横型本があり、前者の絵は精緻な描法と鮮やかな色違いを持ったものが多く、後者の絵は素朴で親しみやすいものが多い。
