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Urabe Kenkō (卜部 兼好, 1283–1350), also known as Yoshida Kenkō (吉田 兼好), or simply Kenkō (兼好), was a Japanese author and Buddhist monk. His most famous work is Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness), [1] one of the most studied works of medieval Japanese literature. Kenko wrote during the early Muromachi and late Kamakura periods.
Kenkō's work predominantly reveals these themes, providing his thoughts set out in short essays of work. Although his concept of impermanence is based upon his personal beliefs, these themes provide a basic concept relatable among many, making it an important classical literature resonating throughout Japanese high school curriculum today.
The success of the Zen sects, which were embraced by the warrior caste, meant that they were able to introduce to the country also a new architectural style, like the Daibutsuyō derived from Song Dynasty architecture, but very different in spirit. [3] After arriving in Japan the style started to evolve in response to local conditions and tastes.
In the Azuchi-Momoyama period not only sukiya style but the contrasting shoin-zukuri (書院造) of residences of the warrior class developed. While sukiya was a small space, simple and austere, shoin-zukuri style was that of large, magnificent reception areas, the setting for the pomp and ceremony of the feudal lords.
The Hōeidō edition of the Tōkaidō is Hiroshige's best known work, and the best sold ever ukiyo-e Japanese prints. [2] Coming just after Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series, it established this new major theme of ukiyo-e, the landscape print, or fūkei-ga, with a special focus on "famous views".
List of works by the German architect Erich Mendelsohn. [1]Outside view of the Taharah Building in Allenstein (Olsztyn) Inner view of the Hat Factory in Luckenwalde Mossehaus in Berlin Rear view of the Einstein Tower in Potsdam Hadassah University Hospital, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem Petersdorff Shopping Centre in Breslau, now Wrocław (Detail)
Hikari umi (Glittering Sea), by Hiroshi Yoshida (1926) Shiba Zōjōji, by Kawase Hasui (1925) Two Cockatoos on Plum Blossom Tree, by Ohara Koson (c. 1925–1935) Shin-hanga ( 新版画 , lit. "new prints", "new woodcut (block) prints") was an art movement in early 20th-century Japan, during the Taishō and Shōwa periods , that revitalized the ...
Project for an Isaac Newton memorial by Étienne-Louis Boullée.. The name Rationalism is retroactively applied to a movement in architecture that came about during the Age of Enlightenment (more specifically, Neoclassicism), arguing that architecture's intellectual base is primarily in science as opposed to reverence for and emulation of archaic traditions and beliefs.