Sentence examples for hand scroll from inspiring English sources

As a work of art, the hand scroll suffers from the dry formalism that prevailed in Kangxi court painting.

He is especially appealing in a Kamakura-period hand scroll fragment about the history of the Jin'oji Temple.

In one he juxtaposes reproduced sections of a 12th-century hand scroll of cityscapes with photographs of modern Beijing.

Among the oldest entries is a Buddhist manuscript hand scroll, one of thousands discovered in the famous Dunhuang caves at the end of the Silk Route.

The hand scroll, on the other hand, is the work of an artist who was one of the Kangxi emperor's official painters.

Xiang was only 28 when he painted this travelogue of a hand scroll around 1625, but he had expert coaching as he worked.

Hand scrolls, traditional to China and Japan, are ink paintings on continuous lengths of paper or silk.

Finally, a small group of hand scrolls shows another facet of Ma's genius.

Most of the objects are hanging or hand scrolls, like "An Ancient Love Poem" by an 18th-century monk, Shakuhachi Jakugon.

The show includes Buddhist sculptures and mandalas, monochrome ink paintings and calligraphy, hand scrolls and hanging scrolls, as well as occasional but outstanding examples of ceramics and lacquerware.

For Chinese landscape painting Sydney L. Moss has outstanding examples in most of the important forms: hanging scrolls, hand scrolls, albums and fans.