Fukinuki yatai

Fukinuki yatai (吹抜屋台) describes a feature of Japanese art particularly associated with e-maki (絵巻) painted scrolls, famously for example, yamato-e.

The basic visual feature depicts the interior scene from an upper diagonal with the roof, ceiling, and sometimes inner partitions removed.

[1][2] From an artistic perspective, it also importantly describes the composition by which character relations, or even feelings, are depicted in the layout.

[3] The rudimentary function of fukinuki yatai was to portrait multiple narrative stories on the same painting using different spaces.

Other typical examples are found in The Tale of Genji (源氏物語絵巻), Murasaki Shikibu Diary Emaki (紫式部日記絵巻), and Kasuga Gongen Genki E (春日権現験記絵巻).

Scene depicting the death of Lady Murasame on the Genji monogatari emaki .
Scene from The Tale of Genji by Tosa Mitsuoki , from the 17th century Tosa school revival of the yamato-e .
Kasuga gongen genki-e, Takashina Takakane, 3-1