Love, Fight, Feast

A uniquely comprehensive survey of Japanese narrative art across eight centuries.

The use of pictures to communicate a story has a long tradition in Japanese culture that dates back more than a thousand years. Such narrative illustrations draw on Buddhist texts, classic literature, poetry, and theatrical scenes to create rich visual imagery realised in a wide range of media and formats. Quotations from and allusions to heroic epics and romances were disseminated through exquisite pain…