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monks. De Lange emphasizes the role that Japanese
tea master Sen no Rikyu (1522-1591) had on the tea
ceremony. Rikyu strongly promoted a concept that
austerity was most conducive to spiritual development
than opulence and this concept helped promote the
concept of wabi and sabi, Japanese aesthetic terms.
These concepts influenced artists’ works on scrolls and
co-existed with more colorful works of art.
Top left; Diagram showing the different parts of a Japanese scroll.
Bottom left; Diagram of the three subclasses of the most common type (Dohoe hyogu) of De Lange points out how small recessed alcoves in
hanging scroll in Japan the private quarters of Chinese Chan monks served
Top right and facing page;. A comparison of three different types of scrolls. Note that the to display religious artifacts and images. This space
middle scroll lacks the two vertical and horizontal strips around the paintings. The painting became the precursor of the Japanese tokonoma.
of a pomegranate is mounted in the Futomincho shitake format. The use of this special alcove became the primary
space to display arts and crafts in Japanese homes,
including scrolls. The hanging scroll reached a peak
of popularity in the Edo period and became available
to commoners according to de Lange.

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