Download or read book Image, Text and Audience written by Melanie Trede and published by Peter Lang Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This analysis of painted versions of the Taishokan, a Muromachi-period story about the transmission of a magic jewel from China to Japan and the succession of the Fujiwara family, includes an annotated translation of the 1632 Daigashira edition. The catalogue of Taishokan pictures, tables of represented scenes, and chronology also document versions of the narrative on hanging scrolls, folding screens, handscrolls, fans, illuminated manuscripts, printed books, and ukiyoe prints.