This paper is a study of a Japanese illustrated handscroll produced in the late Kamakura period (1185-1333), the Mōko Shūrai Ekotoba, that provides an invaluable pictorial account of the two attempted Mongol invasions of Japan in the years 1274 and 1281. It was copied and restored, with some images significantly altered, during the Edo period (1615-1868). While in the original handscroll the appearances of the foreign Mongols were depicted as accurately as possible, the figures added later show exaggerated features and distortions that correspond to new modes of imagining and representing peoples reflecting a new language and the shifting cosmologies brought about by the Japanese encounter with more “different” Others (Europeans).
Mōko shūrai ekotoba (“Illustrated Handscroll of the Mongol Invasions”): A case study of encounter with the other in Japan / Testa, GIUSEPPINA AURORA. - In: EIKÓN IMAGO. - ISSN 2254-8718. - Vol 9, No 1 (2020):15(2020), pp. 35-57.
Mōko shūrai ekotoba (“Illustrated Handscroll of the Mongol Invasions”): A case study of encounter with the other in Japan
Testa Giuseppina Aurora
2020
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This paper is a study of a Japanese illustrated handscroll produced in the late Kamakura period (1185-1333), the Mōko Shūrai Ekotoba, that provides an invaluable pictorial account of the two attempted Mongol invasions of Japan in the years 1274 and 1281. It was copied and restored, with some images significantly altered, during the Edo period (1615-1868). While in the original handscroll the appearances of the foreign Mongols were depicted as accurately as possible, the figures added later show exaggerated features and distortions that correspond to new modes of imagining and representing peoples reflecting a new language and the shifting cosmologies brought about by the Japanese encounter with more “different” Others (Europeans).File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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