Different times and the same picture

...They were entertainers living at the bottom of society. Around this time, hanging scroll paintings, which inherited the characteristic of mural paintings called "different times and the same picture," which could be viewed by many people at once and each person could easily view each scene, came to be widely used instead of picture scrolls, which were also easy to carry and move. From the end of the Muromachi period onwards, women called "Kumano Bikuni" or "Ekai Bikuni" appeared among these people in low-class occupations who had become popular....

*Some of the terminology used in reference to "Iji Dozu" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…彼らは底辺に生きる芸能者だったのである。このころ，多人数が一度に鑑賞可能であり，各人がそれぞれの場面を容易に一覧しうる〈異時同図〉という壁画の特質を継承した掛幅絵が，同じく携帯や移動の点で簡便な絵巻に代わって多用されるようになった。　室町末期以降，このような通俗化した賤業の者たちの中に〈熊野比丘尼（びくに）〉とか〈絵解比丘尼〉などと呼ばれる女性が登場する。…

※「異時同図」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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