As already explained, emakimono is a painting drawn on a long sheet of paper (or, rarely, a sheet of silk cloth) composed of a number of rectangular sheets connected side by side in the horizontal direction, while those painted on silk include "Ippen Shonin Eden" (illustrated tales of a Buddhist saint, Ippen) and "Kasuga Gongen Kenki Emaki" (illustrated scrolls of miracles of the Kasuga god).
絵巻物は、前述のように紙（まれに絹）を横方向につないだ、長大な紙面に描かれたものである（紙でなく絹に描かれた作品としては『一遍上人絵伝』『春日権現験記絵巻』などがある）。