Japanese Scrolls & Screens Paintings 2011 Calendar

Some of Japan's most captivating art has taken the form of scrolls and folding screens. Japanese scrolls--made of silk or paper decorated with ink, gold leaf, and watercolors--bear the influence not only of Japan's own literature but also of Chinese painting and calligraphy as well as Buddhist iconography. Screens, both beautiful and practical, are suited to the flexible spaces inside a traditional Japanese home. The elegant scrolls and screens reproduced in this calendar date from the fifteenth to early nineteenth centuries.Published with the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Size: 12 x 13 in.; opens to 12 x 26 in. Printed on FSC certified paper with soy-based ink.