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There was a revival of the yamato-e style in the 15th century by the Tosa school, including a return to narrative subjects, and although the rival Kanō school grew out of the alternative tradition of Chinese-style works, the style it developed from the late 16th century for large paintings decorating Japanese castles included some elements of ...
Yamato (Japanese: 大和, named after Yamato Province) was the lead ship of the Yamato-class battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. She and her sister ship, Musashi, were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed. She was laid down in 1937 and formally commissioned a week after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Scene from a long narrative scroll retelling the history of a Buddhist monastery, by Tosa Mitsunobu (1434–1535). The Tosa school (土佐派, Tosa-ha) of Japanese painting was founded in the early Muromachi period (14th–15th centuries), [1] and was devoted to yamato-e, paintings specializing in subject matter and techniques derived from ancient Japanese art, as opposed to schools influenced ...
The pictorial style of the Heiji Monogatari Emaki is Yamato-e, [28] a Japanese painting movement (as opposed to Chinese styles) that peaked during the Heian and Kamakura periods. Artists of the Yamato-e style, a colourful and decorative everyday form of art, expressed in all their subjects the sensitivity and character of the people of the ...
Its influence can be traced right up the Edo-period ukiyo-e or later. Scene from The Tale of Genji by Tosa Mitsuoki , from the 17th century Tosa school revival of the yamato-e Works done in the hikime kagibana style show faces with essentially identical features.: [ 1 ] slit eyes and hook nose .
It was renamed in 1874 to the Imperial Japanese Army Academy (陸軍士官学校, Rikugun Shikan Gakkō) and relocated to Ichigaya, Tokyo. The second Army Academy was built by the second French Military Mission to Japan. The inauguration was in 1875. This was an important Military Academy for Japanese Army officers.
In April 1945, the Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship in the world, and nine other Japanese warships, embarked from Japan for a suicide attack on Allied forces engaged in the Battle of Okinawa. The Japanese force was attacked by U.S. carrier-borne aircraft before it could reach Okinawa; Yamato and five other Japanese warships ...
Yamato (男たちの大和, Otoko-tachi no Yamato, literally "The Men's Yamato") is a 2005 Japanese war film. It was directed by Junya Satō and is based on a book by Jun Henmi . With a framing story set in the present day, by flashbacks it tells the story of the crew of the World War II Japanese battleship Yamato , concentrating on the ship's ...