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scroll paintings

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Categoryscroll paintings
Alternative termsscroll painting
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Refers generally to Chinese and Japanese paintings on either hanging scrolls (kakemono, if Japanese) or on handscrolls (emakimono, if Japanese). For written documents on long, rolled strips, see "scrolls (information artifacts)."

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