Panel painting mural - Itaehekiga

…(b) Wooden Walls Wooden wall murals, which are made by lining up boards on the walls of wooden temples and painting them, appear to have been made as old as clay walls, but most of the ones that remain in Japan date from the Heian period onwards. The oldest remaining example of wooden wall murals is the Octagonal Hall of Eizan-ji Temple from the Nara period, and in the Heian period there are murals in the Golden Hall of Muroji Temple, the Five-story Pagoda of Daigoji Temple, the Phoenix Hall of Byodo-in Temple, the Great Hall of Fuki-ji Temple, and the Three-story Pagoda of Joruri-ji Temple, and in the Kamakura period there are murals in the Five-story Pagoda of Kaijusen-ji Temple, the Shakado Hall of Daiho-on-ji Temple, and the Golden Hall of Shomyoji Temple, but they were destroyed during the Muromachi period. Wooden walls are made by lining up vertical boards horizontally to form the picture, and the joints between the boards are filled with a filler. …

*Some of the terminology used to refer to "panel murals" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…(b)板壁　木造寺院内の壁面に板を並べ，それに彩色を施した板壁の壁画は，土壁についで古くより行われていたようであるが，日本に現存するものは，ほとんどが平安時代以降のものである。板絵壁画の最古の遺例は奈良時代の栄山寺八角堂で，平安時代に入り室生寺金堂，醍醐寺五重塔，平等院鳳凰堂，富貴寺大堂，浄瑠璃寺三重塔，鎌倉時代には海住山寺五重塔，大報恩寺釈迦堂，称名寺金堂などの壁画があるが，室町時代には落する。板壁は縦長の板を横に並べて画面を構成し，板の継ぎ目に充塡剤をつめる。…

※「板絵壁画」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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