| In the Edo period, painting pictures on kagami-ita was the role of o-e-dokoro (persons in charge of painting pictures) the Kano family and they started to paint the pictures employing kagami-ita pictures of the front stage in the main enclosure of Edo-jo Castle as the model of the layout of the pictures. |
江戸時代には御絵所狩野家の承るところとなり、江戸城本丸表舞台の鏡板絵を構図の範として描くようになった。 |