Obstacle painting

Japanese: 障屛画 - しょうへいが

A general term for sliding door paintings and folding screen paintings. There are many different types of paintings, but folding screen works have long been loved in Japan as large-scale paintings that brighten up living spaces. The Todaiji Donations List, a list of the belongings donated to the Great Buddha of Todaiji Temple after the death of Emperor Shomu in 756 (Tenpyo-Shoho 8), contains detailed records of the subjects and styles of 100 folding screens, including the Bird Feather Standing Woman Folding Screen, which is currently preserved in the Shosoin Repository, as well as many other folding screens of kyokechi and rokechi. Among these are 21 folding screens of paintings, and it is known that folding screen paintings with a variety of Chinese themes, such as landscapes and genre paintings, were frequently imported at the time.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

障壁画と屛風絵の総称。絵画の画面形式はさまざまだが，生活空間を彩る大画面絵画として早くから日本で愛好されたのは，屛風形式の諸作品であった。756年(天平勝宝8)聖武天皇の没後にその遺愛品を東大寺大仏に献納した際の目録《東大寺献物帳》には，正倉院に現存する《鳥毛立女屛風》をはじめ，多くの纈（きようけち）や﨟纈（ろうけち）などの屛風百帖について，画題や形式などが詳細に記録されている。そのなかに絵画の屛風21帖が含まれ，山水画や風俗画など多様な中国的画題の屛風絵が，当時さかんに請来されていたことが知られる。

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