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There was a revival of the yamato-e style in the 15th century by the Tosa school, including a return to narrative subjects, and although the rival Kanō school grew out of the alternative tradition of Chinese-style works, the style it developed from the late 16th century for large paintings decorating Japanese castles included some elements of ...
Fukinuki yatai (吹抜屋台) describes a feature of Japanese art particularly associated with e-maki (絵巻) painted scrolls, famously for example, yamato-e. Scene depicting the death of Lady Murasame on the Genji monogatari emaki. Scene from The Tale of Genji by Tosa Mitsuoki, from the 17th century Tosa school revival of the yamato-e.
An emakimono consists of one or more long scrolls of paper narrating a story through Yamato-e texts and paintings. The reader discovers the story by progressively unrolling the scroll with one hand while rewinding it with the other hand, from right to left (according to the then horizontal writing direction of Japanese script ), so that only a ...
The pictorial style of the Heiji Monogatari Emaki is Yamato-e, [28] a Japanese painting movement (as opposed to Chinese styles) that peaked during the Heian and Kamakura periods. Artists of the Yamato-e style, a colourful and decorative everyday form of art, expressed in all their subjects the sensitivity and character of the people of the ...
Mitsunaga was a late Heian and early Kamakura period Yamato-e master: the records, and also the similarities in pictorial style, suggest that he was also the author of the Kibi Daijin Nittō Emaki, but that hypothesis is questionable according to art historians, because of the stylistic variations and the artistic superiority of the Ban ...
The 720 Nihon Shoki (日本書紀, "Chronicles of Japan") transcribes Yamato with the Chinese characters 耶麻騰, pronounced in Middle Chinese as /jia mˠa dəŋ/ and in Old Japanese as ya ma to 2 or ya ma do 2. In this version of the Eight Great Islands myth, Yamato is born second instead of eighth:
The representation of nature is remarkable in these paintings: very elaborate, it subtly emphasises the feelings of the characters as well as a certain melancholy, ultimately taking precedence over the characters. As is often the case in Japanese painting, the season is clearly portrayed; here, spring is represented by cherry blossoms and wisteria.
Wadaiko Yamato, Japanese musical group; Yamato, about the World War II battleship Yamato; Space Battleship Yamato, Japanese live action film; Yamato Man, a robot master in Mega Man 6 and Mega Man Battle Network 3; Yamato, the signature sword wielded by Vergil in the Devil May Cry franchise; The Ark of Yamato, an area in the video game Ōkami