Its distinguishing characteristic is the striking capital, which is carved with two staggered rows of stylized acanthus leaves and four scrolls.
"The one I put on this particular house is four scrolls back to back and it actually means humility and strength".
His contemporary Huang Gong, who wrote four scrolls, was a scholar of Qin known for his songwriting.
The owners and state of preservation of all four scrolls has since changed.
The Genji Monogatari Emaki, is a late Heian era 12th-century handscroll, consisting of four scrolls, 19 paintings, and 20 sheets of calligraphy.
The ancestral heritage of the emaki before the Edo period is not known and an investigation conducted during the Meiji period, found that only four scrolls had survived, each 21.0 cm high and about 4.5-5.4 4.5-5.4
Each of the four scrolls of the ventral turbinate bones was scored according to the following criteria (TA score): 0, no lesion; 1, a small part of the turbinate bone (nearly half a scroll) is absent; 2, slight atrophy – more than half a scroll is absent; 3, moderate atrophy – the turbinate bone is straightened; 4, severe atrophy – total disappearance of the turbinate bone.
Only one scroll, hanging in the center of the first gallery, hints at disturbance.
The Three Official Gods, who ruled over heaven, earth and water, are depicted in three scroll paintings, attributed to Wu Daozi, from the early 12th century.
One scroll was peeled apart into many fragments; the other dried up and then, like a disaster in slow motion, split apart into more than three hundred pieces.
During his plea, he said his lies included telling prospective buyers that he had personally retrieved parts of one scroll from a metal box at Auschwitz.
