Mōko Shūrai Ekotoba

Moko Shurai Ekotoba, meaning Illustrated Account of the Mongol Invasion, is a set of two Japanese illustrated handscrolls commissioned by the samurai Takezaki Suenaga, who lived from 1246 to 1314, as a record of his own wartime deeds during the Mongol invasions of Japan. The scrolls illustrate Suenaga actions in two major battles, the Battle of Bun ei in 1274 and the naval Battle of Koan in 1281, combining narrative text with painted scenes of mounted samurai, exploding gunpowder bombs deployed by the Mongol forces, and combat at sea. As one of the few surviving pictorial records of the Mongol invasions made from a Japanese participant own perspective, the scrolls are an important historical and artistic source for understanding thirteenth-century Japanese warfare. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/