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Karukaya 苅萱 an illustrated book


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Karukaya, Japan's First Illustrated Book
"Karukaya is a so-called 'companion story' ascribed to Japan's Muromachi period, approximately 590 years ago. I see it to be Japan's oldest illustrated book. This view of course is not meant to overlook the large bulk of painted handscrolls produced in the preceding Heian and Kamakura eras (roughly 900 to 1300 AD).
However, in the genre of illustrated storybooks, Karukaya can probably be taken with relative confidence as a historic starting point (even though art historians have yet to reach a definitive conclusion on the matter)."
--Yusaku Kamekura, from Creation v. 7 (1990)

This work is now held in the Suntory Museum of Art.
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室町時代に描かれた絵入本
「苅萱（かるかや）」の素朴すぎる世界観よ

今回紹介するのは2013年に日本民藝館で行われた「つきしま かるかや」という展覧会で築島とともに展覧会タイトルにもなっている「苅萱（かるかや）」です。
「苅萱」は苅萱道心と名乗り修行を続ける父と、母とともに父親探しの旅に出る息子 石童丸の逸話「苅萱伝説」を描いた絵入本で、室町時代に刊行されました。
そして苅萱に描かれている絵が、築島の絵のタッチに負けず劣らずのユルさっぷりなんです。

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The Muromachi period (室町時代, Muromachi jidai, also known as the Muromachi era, the Ashikaga era, or the Ashikaga period) is a division of Japanese history running from approximately 1336 to 1573. The period marks the governance of the Muromachi or Ashikaga shogunate (Muromachi bakufu or Ashikaga bakufu), which was officially established in 1338 by the first Muromachi shōgun, Ashikaga Takauji, two years after the brief Kenmu Restoration (1333–1336) of imperial rule was brought to a close. The period ended in 1573 when the 15th and last shogun of this line, Ashikaga Yoshiaki, was driven out of the capital in Kyoto by Oda Nobunaga.
From a cultural perspective,
the period can be divided into the Kitayama and Higashiyama periods (later 15th – early 16th centuries).
The early years
from 1336 to 1392 of the Muromachi period are known as the Nanboku-chō or Northern and Southern Court period. This period is marked by the continued resistance of the supporters of Emperor Go-Daigo, the emperor behind the Kenmu Restoration. The years from 1465 to the end of the Muromachi period are also known as the Sengoku period or Warring States period.
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