hakuga　帛画

KEY WORD :　art history / paintings

Painting on silk. In ancient China, before paper-making was developed, silk or haku (also called so 繪) was used for paintings and calligraphy (called hakusho 帛書). Generally, the subjects of these paintings were Buddhist, depicting cosmology, mythological tales and religious rituals. Many such paintings, dating from the Han Dynasty, were discovered in the Ma Wang Dui (Jp: Ma Outai 馬王堆) tombs at Zhang-sha. .

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