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Japanese: 職人尽絵 - しょくにんづくしえ

A type of genre painting from the early modern period, it depicts the work of various craftsmen. Many of them are made on folding screens or albums, with 12 to 24 pictures of craftsmen. They are descended from the medieval picture scrolls of artisan poetry contests, but reflect the rise of the middle class in the early modern period and are characterized by their vivid depiction of artisans in their environments. The famous example is the "Artisans' Folding Screen" (owned by Kita-in Temple) by Kano Yoshinobu (1552-1640). An older example is the "Tohoku-in Artisans' Poetry Contest" (late Kamakura period), which is a picture scroll depicting a poetic immortal painting style with poems added, and from the Edo period, the famous "Ekotoba of Artisans in the Early Modern Period" by Kuwagata Keisai, which vividly depicts artisans in a unique style.
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Japanese:

近世初期風俗画の一種で，各種の職人の生業のさまを描いた図。12〜24種の職人の図を屏風(びょうぶ)や帖(ちょう)にはったものが多い。中世の職人歌合絵巻の系譜をひくものだが，近世の市民層の台頭を反映し，職人の姿を環境の中に生き生きと描写している所に特色がある。狩野吉信〔1552-1640〕筆の《職人尽図屏風》（喜多院蔵）が有名。古いものでは，歌仙絵風に歌を添えて絵巻形式で表した《東北院職人歌合》（鎌倉時代末）があり，江戸時代のものでは，独自の形式で職人の姿を活写した鍬形【けい】斎(くわがたけいさい)の《近世職人尽絵詞》が名高い。
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