Genji Monogatari Emaki
The word "emaki" stems from the word "emakimono" meaning "picture scrolls". The emakimono picture scrolls consisted of two designs: Pictures that were painted on a scroll with text added to the same scroll or a number of paintings that accompanied passages of text and were joined together in a scroll. The first known picture scroll was produced in Japan during the late ninth or tenth century. The "Genji Monogatari" picture scroll, however, was produced in the early twelfth century. Not only is the "Genji Monogatari Emaki" the oldest surviving monogatari scroll but it is also the oldest surviving non-Buddhist scroll in Japan. There is no exact date to the scroll, but it is estimated to being sometime between 1120 and 1140, in which case it was created just a little over a century after Murasaki Shikibu wrote "The Tale of Genji".
Chinese calligraphy
The Clerical script (traditional Chinese: 隸書; simplified Chinese: 隶书; pinyin: "lìshū") is an archaic style of Chinese calligraphy. The clerical script began during Han dynasty and has lasted up to the present. The clerical script is considered as a form of modern script even though it was replaced by the standard script by very early date. It was all because the graphic forms written in mature clerical script closely resemble those written in standard script.The clerical script is still used for artistic flavor in a variety of functional applications because of its high legibility of reading.