"picture scroll" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a long piece of paper or fabric with pictures or illustrations arranged in a continuous sequence, often used for storytelling or displaying artwork. Example: The museum exhibit featured an ancient picture scroll depicting the history of the kingdom.
Emaki, also called Emakimono, Japanese illustrated text, or narrative picture scroll.
Forms should unfold like images on a screen, or, as Takemitsu once said, a "picture scroll unrolled".
| Aug. 9 at 2 30: "Into the Picture Scroll: The Tale of Yamanaka Tokiwa" (2004, Sumiko Haneda).
Kurosawa explained: "This film is like a strange picture scroll that is unrolled and displayed by the ego".
The first Japanese record of dwarfed potted trees is in the Kasuga-gongen-genki (1309), a picture scroll by Takashina Takakane.
Among his works are Kitano Tenjin engi emaki (a picture scroll depicting the chronicle of the Kitano Shrine), Picture Screens of Itsukushima and Matsushima, and A Quail and Chrysanthemums.
My husband, who caught me looking at the picture, scrolled through the specifications: stopwatch, temperature measurement function, tide graph feature.
The style is a mixture of the realistic narrative of the emaki ("picture scrolls") produced in the Kamakura period and the mature decorative style of the Momoyama and Tokugawa periods.
The history of the shrine, its construction arrangements, and ritual processions are recorded in picture scrolls (emakimono), and at the older shrines there are many votive pictures (ema)—small wooden picture plaques that have been dedicated over the years by worshipers.
In painting as well as sculpture, Buddhist themes began to give way to more secular works; especially popular were picture scrolls (emakimono), which took as their themes the history of temples and shrines, the biographies of founders of religious sects, and, increasingly, military epics and the secular life of both courtiers and warriors.
Manga is often said to have a "thousand-year history" stretching back to illustrated picture scrolls in ancient Japan, but I've previously argued and have found in my research that manga is a very consciously modern, 20th century phenomenon, just like American comics and Franco-Belgian bandes-dessines.
