All East Asian Picture Scrolls

The Murasaki Shikibu Nikki Emaki (紫式部日記絵巻) is a mid-13th century emaki (Japanese picture scroll) inspired by the private diary (nikki) of Murasaki Shikibu, lady-in-waiting at the 10th-11th century Heian court and author of The

The Genji Monogatari Emaki (源氏物語絵巻), also called The Tale of Genji Scroll, is a famous illustrated handscroll of the Japanese literature classic The Tale of Genji, produced during the 12th century, perhaps c. 1120-1140.

The Shigisan Engi Emaki (信貴山縁起絵巻; lit. "Legend of Mount Shigi Emaki") is an emakimono or emaki (painted narrative handscroll) made in the second half of the 12th century CE, during the Heian period of Japanese history (794-1185).

The Ippen Shōnin Eden (一遍 上人 絵 伝; "Illustrated Biography of the itinerant monk Ippen") is a group of emakimono or emaki (painted narrative handscrolls) from the Kamakura period of Japanese history (1185-1333).

Bakemono no e (化物之繪, "Illustrations of Supernatural Creatures"), also known by its alternate title Bakemonozukushie (化物尽繪, "Illustrated Index of Supernatural Creatures"), is a Japanese handscroll of the Edo period depicting 35

The Admonitions Scroll is a Chinese narrative painting on silk that is traditionally ascribed to Gu Kaizhi (ca. 345, ca. 406), but which modern scholarship regards as a 5th to 8th century work that may or may not be a copy of an

Hyakkai-Zukan (百怪図巻; "The Illustrated Volume of a Hundred Demons") is a picture scroll (emakimono) painted in Genbun 2 (1737) by the Edo period Japanese artist Sawaki Suushi (佐脇嵩之 (Sawaki Sūshi), 1707-1772), a student of Hanabusa