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  2. Makimono - Wikipedia

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    Makimono (Japanese 巻物: "rolled thing") may refer to: Makimono, a horizontal type of Japanese handscroll/scroll; Emakimono (lit. "picture scroll"), a horizontal ...

  3. Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga - Wikipedia

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    Most think Toba Sōjō created Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga, who created a painting a lot like Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga; [8] however, it is hard to verify this claim. [10] [11] [12] The drawings of Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga are making fun of Japanese priests in the creator's time period, characterising them as toads, rabbits and monkeys.

  4. Emakimono - Wikipedia

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    The term emakimono or e-makimono, often abbreviated as emaki, is made up of the kanji e (絵, "painting"), maki (巻, "scroll" or "book") and mono (物, "thing"). [1] The term refers to long scrolls of painted paper or silk, which range in length from under a metre to several metres long; some are reported as measuring up to 12 metres (40 ft) in length. [2]

  5. Handscroll - Wikipedia

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    A handscroll has a backing of protective and decorative silk (包首) usually bearing a small title label (題簽) on it. [6]In Chinese art, the handscroll usually consists of a frontispiece (引首) at the beginning (right side), the artwork (畫心) itself in the middle, and a colophon section (拖尾) at the end for various inscriptions.

  6. Coat of arms of Etobicoke - Wikipedia

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    The coat of arms of Etobicoke is the heraldic achievement representing the former city of Etobicoke in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is set to be removed after being criticized for being racist and stereotypical. Other criticism includes the fact that tradition is aligned under the Indigenous man and so, has a certain narrative.

  7. Japanese Canadians in the Greater Toronto Area - Wikipedia

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    In the 1950s and 1970s Etobicoke, Scarborough, and other suburban areas in Greater Toronto received ethnic Japanese coming from western Canada. [ 3 ] By 2013, there had been an increase in the number of Japanese nationals in Toronto, particularly young people there on working holiday visa wishing to work or live in Canada.

  8. Wasōbon - Wikipedia

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    Kansubon (巻子本), a.k.a. Makimono (巻物), or "scrolls" This early form of bookbinding is almost identical to Western scrolls. These kansubon are not constructed of a single, continuous piece of paper, but rather a number of pages arranged horizontally and glued together along their vertical edges. This binding method was used almost ...

  9. Shindō Munen-ryū - Wikipedia

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    The Sanshinkai organization teaches a style of Iaijustu also called Shindō Munen-ryū. The style was propagated by Mitsuzuka Takeshi, a student of Nakayama Hakudo's school, from a makimono that described a set of tachiwaza (standing) kata for intermediate students to the Sanshinkai curriculum.