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were not a part of everyday life and were unfamiliar to the readers. They were instead figures of one's imagination from the past or a make believe world. It was intended for the readers to portray their own image of the figures while reading the novel. If the artists had created realistic portraits
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was used for the drawing of the figure's faces, there was still a great amount of emotion that could be discerned from them. One way that the artists showed individual emotions in the figure's faces is through the placement and size of their facial features; such as the thickness of the eyebrows or
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as a picture scroll, the people in charge wanted to use a style that would not jar with people's image of the novel. The decided to make all the scenes peaceful, elegant and static which reflected the dominant aesthetic attitude of the artists and the early twelfth century court aristocracy towards
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is almost impossible to decipher. Even amongst today's most educated
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For example, in chapters 37 and 39 the depiction of Lady Kumoi is of a strong-willed young woman who has become prey to overwhelming jealousy. This depiction is done by making her eyebrows a bit stronger, tiny pupils that are a little lower, eyes slightly cast down, and her upper lip being just a
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picture scrolls consisted of two designs: Pictures that were painted on a scroll with text added to the same scroll or a number of paintings that accompanied passages of text and were joined together in a scroll. The first known picture scroll was produced in Japan during the late ninth or tenth
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Another way that the artists showed emotion in the characters was by the tilt of their faces. This was done by making the characters faces look away, or covering their faces by placing them in their hands, almost completely covering them, or showing them looking away. The artists also portrayed
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white drawing. Pigments were added to the basic drawing and the details are colored in the third step. In the last step, the original black lines, which are now covered by paint, were drawn back in with ink in order to make the picture stand out more. When deciding to represent the novel
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styles that consisted of delicate flowing lines and others with definite brush strokes. The purpose of this style of calligraphy was more for aesthetic enjoyment of the design rather than for reading. Because of this style of calligraphy, the
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of the figures it would have interfered with the images that the readers had. Therefore, the artist chose to use the unrealistic technique of hikime kagibana so that the readers individual image of the figures could be preserved.
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individual expressions and emotions to the characters by using inanimate elements. Some examples that were used throughout the scroll were autumn grasses and raindrops. The autumn grasses were used as a symbol of human emotion.
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commentary, have allowed scholars to identify extant manuscripts that seem to preserve a pre-Teika form of the text. The best known of these is the Yomei-bunko Genji.
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