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Gohonzon (御本尊) is a generic term for a venerated religious object in Japanese Buddhism.It may take the form of a scroll or statuary. The term gohonzon typically refers to the mainstream use of venerated objects within Nichiren Buddhism, referring to the calligraphic paper mandala inscribed by the 13th Japanese Buddhist priest Nichiren to which devotional chanting is directed.
The first scroll, which is considered the most famous, depicts various animals (frogs, rabbits and monkeys) frolicking as if they were human. [6] [8] [18] There is no writing on any of the scrolls; they consist of pictures only. [19] The first scroll is also the largest, with a length of 11 meters (36 ft) and 30 cm (1 ft) wide. [8]
A scene of Azumaya from the scroll owned by Tokugawa Art Museum Landscape scene from the "Seki-ya" chapter, Tokugawa Art Museum The "sawarabi" scene, Tokugawa Art Museum. The Genji Monogatari Emaki (源氏物語絵巻), also called The Tale of Genji Scroll, is a famous illustrated handscroll of the Japanese literature classic The Tale of Genji, produced during the 12th century, perhaps c. 1120 ...
The term emakimono or e-makimono, often abbreviated as emaki, is made up of the kanji e (絵, "painting"), maki (巻, "scroll" or "book") and mono (物, "thing"). [1] The term refers to long scrolls of painted paper or silk, which range in length from under a metre to several metres long; some are reported as measuring up to 12 metres (40 ft) in length. [2]
The Raigō of Amida and Twenty-Five Attendants, or Rapid Descent of Amida is a 14th century Japanese scroll painting on silk completed during the late Kamakura period. Currently located in the temple of Chion-in , in Kyoto , the painting depicts the salvation of the deceased by the Buddha Amitābha , and twenty-five bodhisattvas , among them ...
A handscroll has a backing of protective and decorative silk (包首) usually bearing a small title label (題簽) on it. [6]In Chinese art, the handscroll usually consists of a frontispiece (引首) at the beginning (right side), the artwork (畫心) itself in the middle, and a colophon section (拖尾) at the end for various inscriptions.
Parallax scrolling is a technique in computer graphics where background images move past the camera more slowly than foreground images, creating an illusion of depth in a 2D scene of distance. [1] The technique grew out of the multiplane camera technique used in traditional animation [ 2 ] since the 1930s.
Kiznaiver (キズナイーバー, Kizunaībā) is a 2016 Japanese anime television series produced by Trigger, Aniplex, and Crunchyroll and written by Mari Okada.The series features character designs by Shirow Miwa. [4]