Focus on Kibi Daijin Nittō Emaki and explore the Historiographical value.
The people of Japan are always represented in emakimono, which therefore constitute valuable historical documents on the daily life, landscapes and culture of the Japanese archipelago. In the Kibi Daijin Nittō Emaki, Tang dynasty China, where the story takes place, is not painted with great precision, but several Japanese elements, in particular the boat used by Kibi and the dishes he brought from Japan as a diplomatic gift, are much more detailed. The paintings in the work also depict the game of Go, which has existed for millennia in Asia, as it was practised at the time of the work's creation, and that has actually changed very little since then. The introduction of Go to Japan is also sometimes attributed to Kibi.Historically, the two oldest surviving texts on Kibi's legendary chronicles are the Gōdanshō and the calligraphies of the Kibi Daijin Nittō Emaki.
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