Artworks

Takamatsuzuka Tomb Mural

Artwork · Anonymous · late 7th century–8th century · wall painting

The paintings of a small tomb near Asuka, found in 1972: the animals of the four directions (the Dark Warrior of the North — a tortoise with a snake — and the dragon and tiger), the sun, the moon and the constellations, and groups of men and women, among them four court ladies on the west wall. 1 Mason 2005, p. 39, fig. 42–43. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.