How does this artwork elucidate its Historiographical value?
Besides its historical and religious content, the Kitano Tenjin Engi Emaki offers insight into everyday life, not of the time of Michizane, but of that of the artist 300 years later. The latter painted, for example, various rites and birth ceremonies or the outfits of young monks in the temples.A scene from the first part of the work shows a boat propelled by six rowers, testimony of medieval Japanese ships of which no example remains.More generally, the architecture of the characters' habitats, their internal layout, the clothes, the festivities, the wooden bridges, the graves, the pets, the children who appear very frequently, and a multitude of other details are revealed by a study of the work by the Kanagawa University.
Tenjin Kanagawa University Michizane