kibumi

Updated: July 12, 2026

The Chronicles add that, in A.D. 604, when the Empress Suiko occupied the throne, two schools of painters were established, namely, the Kibumi and the Yamashiro. It is elsewhere explained that the business of those artists was to paint Buddhist pictures, the special task of the Kibumi men being to illuminate scrolls of the Sutras.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era