Hanging width - Kakefuku

…On the other hand, the screens of the transformation-type Buddhist paintings, which often feature groups of deities, such as the Taima Mandala and the Buddha's Nirvana, spread horizontally, and in the Kamakura period, the contents of a story were expressed by combining several scrolls. The hanging scroll format was highly functional in terms of display, preservation, and storage, and therefore became popular as an object of worship. (6) Scrolls Scrolls, which are flat and viewed while rolling up, as opposed to hanging scrolls that are hung three-dimensionally, were originally used exclusively for sutras, but as decorative sutras on dark blue paper and gold paint became popular, Buddhist paintings began to be drawn on the inside backs of sutra scrolls, and picture scrolls that depicted the Chusonji Sutra, Heike Nokyo Sutra, and even sutras, temple histories, biographies of Buddha, and patriarchal paintings appeared. With the development of esoteric Buddhism, white-drawn scrolls of various images, such as mandalas, also began to be produced. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "hanging width" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…一方，《当麻曼荼羅》や〈仏涅槃図〉など集合尊の多い変相系の仏画の画面は横に広がり，鎌倉時代になると何幅かを一組にすることによって，説話内容を表現することが行われた。掛幅形式は，展示，保存，収納などに優れた機能性を有するため，信仰の対象として一般に普及した。(6)巻子　立体的に懸ける懸幅に対して，平面的において巻きながら見る巻子は，当初はもっぱら経巻に用いられたが，紺紙金泥の装飾経が流行するにつれて，経巻の見返しにも仏画が描かれるようになり，《中尊寺経》《平家納経》，ひいては経典や寺院縁起，仏伝や祖師絵伝などを絵画化する絵巻が現れ，密教の発達に伴い，曼荼羅など各種図像の白描図巻も制作されるようになる。…

※「掛（懸）幅」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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