pt. 1. The origins of Yamato painting: Kara-e influences -- Kara-e Japanized -- The Japanization of continental culture -- Debut of writing in Japan -- pt. 2. Yamato painting during the Heian period -- pt. 3. Four-seasons painting: The seasons in Japan -- Shiki-e themes -- Lost paintings -- Famous-place paintings -- pt. 4. Picture scrolls: Link with literature -- Heian-period picture scrolls -- Color versus line -- pr. 5. Yamato painting from the middle ages: Toward new cultural forms -- The demand for portrait painting -- New themes -- Scrolls of the new Buddhist sects -- Pictorial records of the times -- The Yamato-e tradition in later times -- pt. 6. Yamato painting: a detailed study: The beginnings of Japanese painting -- Four-seasons panels and screens -- Yamato-e artists -- Picture scrolls and books -- The Genji Monogatari and the Sanjuroku-nin Shu -- Decorated sutras -- The Shigi-san scroll tradition -- New historical trends -- Higi-ga and Rokudo-e -- The development of portraiture -- Realistic landscapes -- Picture scrolls of the middle ages -- The inheritors of the Yamato-e tradition -- Appendix: Extant picture scrolls
