Landscape screen

Japanese: 山水屛風 - せんずいびょうぶ

Folding screens are used in the ablution ceremony at Shingon Esoteric Buddhism temples. Literary sources show that from around the 10th century, folding screens were used as general furnishings at the Imperial Court and elsewhere, but gradually made their way into ablution venues, and by the 14th century they had already become important ablution tools. As if reflecting this process of transition, the few landscape folding screens that remain today are not uniform in both their depiction and the background behind their creation. One scroll (a national treasure) in the Kyoto National Museum was created in the late 11th century, and depicts an old hermit, paper and brush in hand, composing his poetic thoughts, along with the people who visit him, against a backdrop of an open water scene and a range of low mountains in the distance.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

真言密教の寺院で，灌頂（かんぢよう）の儀式の際に使用される屛風。文献的には，10世紀ころから宮中などで用いられていた一般的な調度としての屛風が，しだいに灌頂の場に進出し，14世紀には既に重要な灌頂用具となっていたことがわかる。こうした変遷の過程を反映するかのように，現在残された数種類の山水屛風は，画面も制作背景も一様ではない。京都国立博物館所蔵の1帖(国宝)は11世紀後半の制作で，広々と開けた水景と遠く連なる低い山並みを背景に，紙と筆を手に詩想を練る老隠者と，これを訪問する人々の姿を描く。

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