Samurai battle scenes (artwork)

Samurai battle scenes The artwork, ¡°Samurai battle scenes¡± painted in the 19th century is a Japanese style artwork painted on a single four-fold screen in colour and gold leaf on paper. In the painting we get an overhead, almost a birds eye view of a samurai battle. Warriors are riding into battle on horseback, wearing armour and bearing weapons. The landscape is strewn with many bodies and horses and with the combination of diagonal parallel …

…parties to produced seki-ga -- impromptu painting combined with spontaneous poetry known as kyoka, literally mad verse. ¡° This is what an anonymous critic has commented on the artwork. I agree with what this critic has to say. The era in which the painting was painted was thought to be one of growth for the Japanese and introduction into western culture. It is possible that there are western influences in the painting or the method used.