Famous Places Paintings

Japanese: 名所絵 - めいしょえ

In the Heian and Kamakura periods, it was one of the most popular themes for folding screen paintings, along with Tsukinamie (pictures of the months) and Shiki-e (pictures of the four seasons), or in combination with these. Famous places from various provinces, known for their utamakura (poems), were selected, and the paintings were accompanied by seasonal and human events, and were appreciated in conjunction with waka poetry. This trend began in the mid-Heian period (10th century), and Yamato-e folding screens used for the Daijo-e banquet were also ritualized famous place paintings named after place names in the provinces of Yuki and Suki. From the Middle Ages onwards, the tradition of famous place paintings was passed down to picture scrolls, and continues to the early modern period's Rakuchu Rakugaizu (Screen in and around Kyoto) and ukiyo-e landscape prints by Hiroshige, Hokusai, and others.

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Japanese:

平安・鎌倉時代の屏風障子絵において，月次絵 (つきなみえ) ，四季絵と並び，あるいはこれらと組合わされて最も愛好された画題。歌枕などで知られた諸国の名所を選び，季節感や人事などを盛込んで描き連ね，和歌と合せて鑑賞された。その流行は平安時代中期 (10世紀) に始り，大嘗会 (だいじょうえ) の饗宴に用いるやまと絵屏風も，悠紀 (ゆき) ，主基 (すき) の国郡内の地名にちなむ儀礼化された名所絵であった。さらに中世以後，名所絵の伝統は絵巻物などに継承され，近世初期の『洛中洛外図屏風』や広重，北斎などの浮世絵風景版画にまで及んでいる。

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