Artworks

Yamai no sōshi (Notebook of Illnesses)

Artwork · Anonymous · late 12th century · emakimono

Scenes of the ills that befall human beings, from toothache to hallucinations, in a small format (a sheet only about 27 cm high) for intimate viewing. In a bedroom with three soundly sleeping women, a sufferer from insomnia props herself on one arm, counting on her fingers; the single black lamp stand echoes her wakeful figure. 1 Mason 2005, p. 211, fig. 244. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.