Vermilion Red Wall Art

Vermilion Red — 121 museum-grade prints in this palette. Kyoto served as Japan's capital from 794 to 1868 and remains dense with UNESCO-listed temples, shrines, and gardens. Fushimi Inari-taisha's torii tunnels, Kiyomizu-dera's wooden stage, and the Yasaka Pagoda in Higashiyama are among the most photographed landmarks in the country — especially during momiji season when maple foliage turns the hills vermilion and gold. Cheriyal scrolls come from Cheriyal village in Telangana's Siddipet district, painted for generations by the Nakashi artist community. They were long narrative cloth scrolls unrolled episode by episode by travelling balladeer-storytellers — the kaki padagollu and allied story-telling castes — who sang the epics and caste-origin legends to village audiences through the night. Bathukamma is Telangana's autumn flower festival, held over nine days around Durga Navaratri, when women build a conical stack of seasonal blooms — gunugu, tangedu, marigold — and circle it singing through the evening before floating it on a tank or lake. Cheriyal scroll painting itself comes from Cheriyal village in Telangana's Siddipet district, painted by the Nakashi artist community on a signature red ground and once unrolled by travelling balladeers to narrate epics and caste legends.

Updated 22 Jun 2026