Tosa Mitsunobu

"Tosa Mitsunobu and the Small Scroll in Medieval Japan" is the first book-length study to focus on short-story small scrolls (ko-e), one of the most complex but visually appealing forms of early Japanese painting. Small picture scrolls emerged in Japan during the fourteenth-century and were unusual in constituting approximately half the height of the narrative handscrolls that had been produced and appreciated in Japan for centuries.