绘卷是日本大和绘的一种美术作品形式,产生于九世纪末。当时,随着日本文学的进步,小说发达得很快,以长幅横卷形式描绘书籍内容的作品大量产生,这种美术作品被称为绘卷。描绘小说、故事的绘卷叫做物语绘卷,它在日本美术史上留下了许多精彩的作品,《源氏物语》绘卷就是其中珍贵的一部。《源氏物语》是日本公元十世纪末的一部长篇小说。在日本古典文学中有很重要的地位,成为延绵近四百年的日本平安时代物语文学的典范,在世界文学史上,它也是一部时代很早的思想性、艺术性很高的作品。《源氏物语》绘卷是按小说故事情节发展描绘的。原作共有十卷,全部包括八十到九十幅画,每幅画都是在1.3尺到1.6尺宽的差不多同等大小的纸面上画的。作品真实地描绘了全书五十四贴的史诗般的连续画面,不仅能使人们了解整个小说的故事情节梗概,同时也给读 Painted scroll is a Japanese art form painted in Yamato, which came into being at the end of the 9th century. At that time, with the progress of Japanese literature, novels developed rapidly and a large number of works depicting the contents of books in the form of long, horizontal scrolls were produced. Such works of art were called painted scrolls. The portrayal of the novel, the story is called the storytelling scroll, which has left many wonderful works in the history of Japanese art. The “Tale of Genji” paintings are one of the precious pieces. “Tale of Genji” is a Japanese novel of the late tenth century. It plays a very important role in Japanese classical literature and serves as an example of the storytelling literature in Japan’s peaceful period for nearly four hundred years. In the history of world literature, it was also an ideological and artistic work with a very early age. The Tale of Genji pictures are based on the development of the story of the novel. The original volume consists of ten volumes, all of which range from 80 to 90 paintings, each painted on a paper of about the same size as 1.3 to 1.6 feet wide. The work truly portrays an epic serial footage of the entire book, which not only enables people to understand the outline of the story in the whole novel but also to read