Heiji Monogatari Emaki
The night attack on Sanjō Palace: the classic war scroll of flames and cavalry
- Style
- Yamato-e, Heian Japanese painting — Japanese stories on long scrolls: a view from above through removed roofs, mood in dense colour
- Century
- 13th century
Made around the same time (±30 years)
- c. 1238–1391 Alhambra · Moorish style (al-Andalus) · Granada
- c. 1258–1273 Masnavi — Rumi · Konya
- 1248–1880 Cologne Cathedral · Gothic · Cologne
- 1242–1248 Sainte-Chapelle · Gothic · Paris
- c. 1260 Sumer Is Icumen In · Probably Reading, England
- c. 1270 Cantigas de Santa Maria — Alfonso X the Wise and his court · Castile (Toledo, Seville)
What was happening in the world
- 1258 Mongol sack of Baghdad
- c. 1250 The moai of Easter Island
- c. 1251 The Tripitaka Koreana
- 1257 Samalas eruption
- 1271 Kublai Khan founds the Yuan dynasty
- 1271–1295 Travels of Marco Polo