haritsuke-e 貼付絵

Keywords
Art History
Painting

Also haritsukega 貼付画. Abbreviation of kabe haritsuke-e 壁貼付絵. Paintings on paper (or infrequently on silk) which are pasted onto the fixed walls or panels of a room. A type of *shōhekiga 障壁画 (paintings on walls and sliding doors). One of the earliest of the rare examples on silk is Shōtoku Taishi eden 聖徳太子絵伝 (The Illustrated Biography of Prince Shōtoku; 1069) that once decorated the walls of the Picture Hall, Eden 絵殿, in Hōryūji 法隆寺 (now in the Tokyo National Museum). Haritsuke-e are more frequently associated with castles and residences in the shoin style *shoin-zukuri 書院造 that developed in the 16th century, Momoyama period. Paintings in ink or colors on gold background or paper pasted on the walls of the alcoves, are a distinctive characteristic of the shoin style. Locations for haritsuku-e include: on the walls of the alcove *tokonoma 床の間, tokokabe haritsuke-e 床壁貼付絵, paintings on the walls behind the staggered shelves *chigaidana 違い棚, chigaidana haritsuke-e 違い棚貼付絵; on the panels along the lower part of the translucent sliding panels *shōji 障子, shōji koshi-ita haritsuke-e 障子腰板貼付絵; on the narrow wall space above the non-penetrating beams *nageshi 長押, nageshi ue kokabe haritsuke-e 長押上小壁貼付絵.