Traditional Japanese drawings/paintings adopt parallelism for scenes and buildings (similar to Chinese type). Overall, in the art of China/Japan, spatial depth is depicted through the use of successive picture planes (spatial layering) located at different distances from the viewer, upon which (isolated) parallel projection(s) are made.
Far Eastern artists used parallel perspective to structure pictorial space, which, though not (overtly) scientifically or optically grounded, follows defined principles. Today, it underpins many computer- and technical/engineering drawing systems.
Unlike linear perspective, whose perspective was objective, or looking from the outside, Chinese/Japansese art used parallel projections within the painting that allowed the viewer to consider both the global (single-scale) space and the ongoing progression of time in one scroll of paper. Chinese/Japansese perspective rejects the Western concept of central perspective (including overt vanishing points); instead, it produces scenes with a ladder of planes or two-dimensional scenes shown in flat or ostensibly single-scale perspective.
Sometimes Chinese/Japansese methods employ pictorial elements from multiple viewpoints in a single painting, a technique similar to Cubism. Another similarity is the use of conjoined viewpoints from multiple distances, displayed at the same scale.
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