Artworks

Painted wall with chokkomon design, Idera Tomb

Artwork · Anonymous · 7th century · wall painting

Stone slabs at the base of the walls of the Idera Tomb’s burial chamber, chiselled with the chokkomon pattern and painted red, blue and white — the most advanced example of the design known; the chamber’s corbelled vault is the finest in Kyūshū. 1 Mason 2005, p. 37, fig. 39. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.