Emakimono (絵巻物 emaki-mono, lit. 'picture scroll'), often simply called emaki (絵巻), is a horizontal, illustrated narrative form created during the 11th to 16th centuries in Japan. Emaki-mono combines both text and pictures, and is drawn, painted, or stamped on a handscroll. They depict battles, romance, religion, folk tales, and stories of the supernatural world.
The handscroll, along with the hanging scrolls are the two most common forms of Japanese painting.[1]
A normal story would take one to three scrolls in total.
Emaki-mono are read by exposing an arms-length of the scroll at a time, from right to left, as Japanese is written.
The most often discussed example of emaki-mono is the Genji Monogatari Emaki dating from about 1130. This emaki illustrates Murasaki Shikibu's epic The Tale of Genji.
The Chōjū giga
(Scroll of Frolicking Animals) is unusual in its own medium, as it does
not contain any text, only pictures. It depicts scenes of animals in
amusing scenes, analogizing Japanese society in the 12th century.
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