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This painting is executed in a technique called hakubyoga (white drawing), which combines light, wirelike lines and solid black accents with occasional touches of red or gold. Hakubyoga was initially used in the mid-thirteenth century to illustrate tales of courtly romance. The form may have developed as a recognition of the inherent beauty of outline drawings to which polychrome pigment was then applied. This "incomplete" stage was adapted and refined to a distinct representational method. The variations of black and subtle hints of color effectively suggest the delicate currents of emotion underlying the repetitive formality of court life.
- Published References
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- Zaigai Nihon no Shiho [Japanese Art: Selections from Western Collections]. 10 vols., Tokyo, 1979 - 1980. vol. 2: pl. 30.
- Zaigai hiho [(Japanese Paintings in Western Collections]. 3 vols., Tokyo. vol. 2: pt. I and pt. II, p. 92, pl. 67.
- Great Drawings of All Time. 4 vols., New York. .
- Mayuyama Junkichi. Japanese Art in the West. Tokyo. pl. 152 a, b.
- Dr. John Alexander Pope, Thomas Lawton, Harold P. Stern. The Freer Gallery of Art. 2 vols., Washington and Tokyo, 1971-1972. cat. 74, vol. 2: p. 174.
- Charles Franklin Sayre. Japanese Court-Style Narrative Painting of the Late Middle Ages. vol. 35 New York and Honolulu, HI. p. 79, fig. 14.
- Masterpieces of Chinese and Japanese Art: Freer Gallery of Art handbook. Washington, 1976. p. 107.
- Crossing the Sea: Essays on East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Yoshiaki Shimizu. Princeton. p. 118, fig. 14.
- Melissa McCormick. Tosa Mitsunobu and the Small Scroll in Medieval Japan. Seattle and London. pp. 127, 132, fig. 60.
- Narasaki Muneshige. On the Picture Scrolls of the Utatane-zoshi. no. 756 Tokyo, September 1957. pp. 275-281, pl. 2.
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- Japanese Art
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