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Nichizo’s pictorially breathtaking odyssey involve s help from both monks and demons, a pause to pray in a cave (dragon notwithstanding) and braving a fabulous fire-breathing monster with eight heads a nd nine tails who guards the fiery furnace that is hell. All this is played out in a sparsely limned landscape whose mutations from gentle to spiked t o lunar make it a star in its own right. A similarly spare, evocative landscape also figure s in "A Long Tale for an Autumn Night," another in k-and-color painting from around 1400. Its anguish ed plot concerns an aspiring monk’s love for a bea utiful boy and ends, as this genre usually did, wi th the death of the boy, who is revealed to be a m anifestation of the bodhisattva Kannon. "Storytelling in Japanese Art" is not a historical ly thorough survey. Its main goal is to follow the mingling of different narrative and pictorial gen res and styles. Its arrangement is as much themati c as chronological, with groupings of different wo rks from different centuries attesting to the cont inuing attraction that certain stories exerted on the imagination. In the section devoted to "The Tale of Genji," the 12th-century novel that is among Japan’s greatest contributions to world literature, for example, m odest books and hand scrolls are grouped around a pair of Edo-period screens by the 16th-century mas ter Kano Soshu like small craft around a magnifice nt ocean liner. And early in the exhibition En No Gyoja, the legen dary founder of a mountain-based asceticism combin ing aspects of Shinto and Buddhist beliefs known a s Shugendo, moves through several mediums, includi ng intentional hanging scrolls and what might be c alled accidental ones, those made from fragments e xcised from hand scrolls and mounted on textiles,
as well as intact hand scrolls. He is especially a ppealing in a Kamakura-period hand scroll fragment about the history of the Jin’oji Temple. It shows him in a garden with low-flying clouds conversing with a local deity, while a visiting Korean god a lights on the top of a pine tree, causing one of E n No Gyoja’s loyal servant-demons to fall to his knees. From there the show traces the pictorial life of v arious cherished narratives from medium to medium. Sacred tales about building temples or the spirit ual evolution of semidivine beings give way to cel ebrations of rulers’ lives, epic military battles or endlessly triangulating romances whose female p articipants usually pay the price. In the late-16t h-century hand scroll "The Tale of Gio" the title character, a dancer, generously allows another wom an to perform for her patron in a green-carpeted p avilion, and of course her life ends up in ruins. Here, as in later works throughout the show, freehand ink painting gives way to stiffer figuration and bright opaque colors, and open landscapes are more and more punctuated by steeply tilted buildin gs whose sumptuous interiors become central. Partly because of the exhibition’s placement in th e permanent-collection galleries, Ms. Watanabe has supplemented the scrolls, books and screens with works in other mediums. A lacquer box and a kimono decorated with images of books suggest the high v alue placed on literature, and lacquer stirrups an d saddles are placed near several screens recounti ng historic battles that had assumed mythic status in Japanese culture. They teem with mounted soldi ers and archers and, according to the label, can d epict up to 80 separate episodes. If you wonder what a six-legged red-lacquer storag e case is doing in the show, look no farther than the pair of painted screens next to it. On one a n early identical case is boldly outlined in ink. Ac cording to the label a brave samurai cut off the a
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