oct 16, 1251 - Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace

Description:

1250-1300 CE
Handscroll (ink and color on paper)
Kamakura Period, Japan
Emaki - handscroll Japanese painting format.
Otoko-e - action packed “men’s paintings”

Designed to be unrolled and read in sections right to left.

Great attention to detail, great valuable reference for this time period.

Begins with a point of calm.

Documents the Heiji
Insurrection of 1159-60.