Tosa Mitsunobu and the small scroll in medieval Japan

Abstract

Note to ReadersAcknowledgments INTRODUCTION: THE SMALL SCROLL AND JAPANESE PICTORIAL NARRATIVE 1 A BRIEF HISTORY OF SMALL SCROLLS Fourteenth-Century ExamplesLarge Scrolls and Short NarrativesA Theory of the Short-Story Small Scroll Short-Story Small Scrolls in the Fifteenth CenturyThe Visual Language of Short-Story Small ScrollsSmall Scrolls as Picture Books for ChildrenSmallness in Late Medieval Culture 2 THE CULTURAL MILIEU OF SANJONISHI SANETAKA AND TOSA MITSUNOBU The Reception of Miracles of the Kasuga DeityMitsunobu, Painting Bureau Director Poetry Gatherings and Artistic ProjectsBuddhist Icons, Mortuary Portraits, and the Court ArtistMitsunobu, Sanetaka, and the Collaborative ProcessClouds of Mt. Koya: A Small Scroll by Mitsunobu and Sanetaka 3 A WAKEFUL SLEEP: PAINTING THE DREAM TALE A Muromachi Period Dream TaleReworking the Courtly Romance in Text and ImageVisualizing a Karmic BondThe Female Protagonist and the Romantic IdealA Wakeful Sleep and Aristocratic Marriage 4 THE JIZO HALL: A PICTORIAL REBIRTH The Scroll and the StoryCombinatory LogicThe Shadow ProtagonistAn Imperial Painting 5 BREAKING THE INKSTONE: AN ACOLYTE TALE FOR A YOUNG SHOGUN The Pictorial Language of Breaking the InkstoneBreaking the Inkstone as an Acolyte TaleYoshizumi and Hosokawa MasamotoMasamoto, Mountains, and MagicBreaking the Inkstone and Bonds between Men Epilogue Appendix: Translations Notes BibliographyIllustration Credits Index