Soft lesions - Zejyou

A type of screen used by nobles. Also called "zenjo," it means soft shoji screen. A decorative curtain hung between pillars or on the inside of a blind to be used as a partition. Made from plain silk. Unlike a kabeshiro, it is painted, has a wide border of purple twill around the edges, has silk stitching at the top, and is hung by a string. According to the section on Taikyo in the "Masake Sozokusho," the painting has a Takamatsu tree as its main body, with trees of the four seasons depicted, and it was called "Takamatsu no naru shoji." The same excerpt also states that the folding screens used in Higashisanjo Palace were painted with a picture of a Shosho (minor general) hunting in Sagano, which gives us an idea of ​​what paintings of folding screens were like. In the "Annual Events Picture Scroll," in the scene of an internal banquet, a folding screen with a Chinese-style painting of landscape figures is hung on the inside of the west eaves of the Ryoki Palace, and in the scene of a grand banquet, a similar Chinese painting can be seen on the western corridor of the Genkimon Gate.

[Takada Yamato]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

公家(くげ)が用いた屏障具(へいしょうぐ)の一種。「ぜんじょう」ともいい、軟らかい障子の意。柱の間、御簾(みす)の内側に掛け、間仕切りとして使われた装飾的な幕。平絹で仕立てる。壁代(かべしろ)と違い、絵を描き、周囲に紫綾(あや)の幅の広い縁をつけ、上部に乳(ち)を綴(と)じ付けて、それに紐(ひも)を通してつり下げる。『雅亮装束抄(まさすけそうぞくしょう)』大饗(たいきょう)の条によると、絵は高松を本体にして、四季の樹木を描いたとあり、これを「高松の軟障」とよんだ。また同抄に、東三条殿で使われた衝立(ついたて)障子に、嵯峨野(さがの)に狩りせし少将のさまを描いた軟障の絵が描かれているとあって、これらにより軟障の絵のありさまを知ることができる。『年中行事絵巻』内宴の場面、綾綺(りょうき)殿西庇(にしびさし)内側に唐絵(からえ)の山水人物を描いた軟障が掛けられ、また、大饗の場面、玄輝門西廊に同様の唐絵が描かれたものをみることができる。

［高田倭男］

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