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Streaked bands of red-orange and grey cross the sky, with jagged tan mountains behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe original: one of a set of five handscrolls, ink, color and cut gold leaf on paper, Japan, Kamakura period, late 13th century, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmaki are Japanese illustrated handscrolls that combine calligraphy and painting on long rolls of paper or silk, read by unrolling from right to left. The Illustrated Legends of the Kitano Tenjin Shrine tell of the scholar and statesman Sugawara no Michizane (845–903), who died in exile after a court conspiracy and was worshipped as Tenjin at the Kitano Tenmangū shrine in Kyoto, a story painted in more than thirty versions. This late 13th-century set of five handscrolls from the Kamakura period, in ink, colour and cut gold leaf on paper, is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted as a museum-grade giclée on Hahnemühle fine art paper using 12-ink archival pigment printing. Available handframed in FSC-certified wood with optional float glass, or unframed. 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