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Interesting Museum Shop Choju-giga Picture Scrolls Choju-Jinbutsu Giga Picture Scrolls National Treasures Interior Displays Figurines Decorative Paintings Objects Souvenirs Presents Gifts Manga Anime Kozanji Temple (Actual Size Picture Scrolls (Scroll 1)

Interesting Museum Shop Choju-giga Picture Scrolls Choju-Jinbutsu Giga Picture Scrolls National Treasures Interior Displays Figurines Decorative Paintings Objects Souvenirs Presents Gifts Manga Anime Kozanji Temple (Actual Size Picture Scrolls (Scroll 1)

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Size: Paper width 30.5cm x length 1148.4cm Specifications: Paper-covered scroll style Separate commentary included: Four-sided booklet included ●Printing method: Glass colored edition (collotype multicolor printing) Full-size picture scroll [Choju and beasts from 800 years ago Why are caricatures so loved? ] ①This picture scroll has been passed down from Kozanji Temple in Kyoto, and is extremely well-known and popular among national treasures. ②Many unique and humorous characters such as frogs and rabbits will appear. ③This is a black and white painting drawn with free and energetic brushstrokes with a sense of tension. ④Choju-Giga is the root of Japanese manga and anime that are popular all over the world.

◆ Full-size picture scroll (National Treasure: Caricatures of Birds and Beasts, Volume 1) ◆ Heian period, Kozanji Temple Collection A sumo wrestling match between a rabbit and a frog, and a monkey chasing each other. Lively animals playing and jumping. Known as a masterpiece in the history of Japanese painting, the picture scroll ``National Treasure Choju Jinbutsu Giga'' is loved by everyone. We have created a full-size version of the most well-known of these, the first volume. This is an exact reproduction of the original, produced by collotype printing. You can see more detailed depictions of various animals wrestling, playing in the water, and chasing each other. It is a perfect item as a treasured edition, as a model for paintings, etc., and as a teaching material. ○What is collotype?○ Offset printing, a common printing method, expresses colors and shading using the density of small halftone dots, but collotype expresses colors with continuous gradations, so it can produce detailed details that are more realistic like photographs. It can be expressed as


Size: Actual size picture scroll (first scroll)
Manufacturer: Mono Kikaku Co., Ltd.
Product weight: 0.9 kg
Package size: 35 x 9 x 8 cm ; 900 g
Packing weight: ‎0.9 kg
Uses batteries: ‎No
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