| Kyoto, though it remained the scene of a colorful court life, was forced to share honors with Kamakura as a center of art and culture. Many Kyoto scholars moved to Kamakura to aid the civil administration of the bakufu, and the warrior class brought a new creative energy to art and literature, which were approaching sterility in the late Heian period. Significant artistic trends included a final great flowering of sculpture before its gradual demise in later centuries; the introduction from China of two new architectural styles known as the Chinese and the Indian styles, which came to blend with the traditional Japanese style; and the perfection of the narrative picture scroll (emakimono). | 1 |
