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By the mid-Nara period (ca. 750) Japanese paintings showed influences of the Chinese Tang dynasty (618–907) and in the 9th century early Heian period evolved into the Kara-e genre. Wall murals in the Takamatsuzuka Tomb , the Kitora Tomb and the Portrait of Kichijōten at Yakushi-ji exemplify the Kara-e style.
The aesthetic language and conventions of these media have increasingly come to represent the totality of Japanese art and culture abroad as well; the aesthetic of kawaii, for example, originally was derived from traditional concepts within Japanese art dating back to the 15th century, [75] but was explored within popular manga and anime series ...
Japanese Modern Art Painting From 1910 . Edition Stemmle. ISBN 3-908161-85-1; Watson, William, The Great Japan Exhibition: Art of the Edo Period 1600-1868, 1981, Royal Academy of Arts/Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Momoyama, Japanese art in the age of grandeur. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1975. ISBN 978-0-87099-125-7. Murase, Miyeko (2000).
Plate used to print ukiyo-e. Ukiyo-e is a Japanese printmaking technique which flourished in the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of subjects including female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; Japanese flora and fauna; and erotica.
Asai Chū (浅井 忠, July 22, 1856 – December 16, 1907) was a Japanese painter, noted for his pioneering work in developing the yōga (Western-style) art movement in late 19th century and early twentieth-century Japanese painting.
Bamboo-lined entrance bridge. The museum's collection comprises some 8,000 items of art and crafts – paintings, prints, drawings, painted screens, textiles, antique illustrated texts, ceramics, miniature carvings (), lacquer and metal work, antique swords and functional art works, mainly from the 17th to 19th centuries, as well as a collection of modern Japanese art. [6]
The screens are among the first works of Japanese painter and lacquerer Ogata Kōrin after he attained the rank of Hokkyō (法橋, “Bridge of the Dharma”), the third highest rank awarded to artists. It depicts bunches of abstracted blue Japanese irises in bloom, and their green foliage, creating a rhythmically repeating but varying pattern ...
Ninja Robots, [2] known in Japan as Ninja Robot Tobikage [3] (忍者戦士飛影, Ninja Senshi Tobikage, lit. Tobikage the Ninja Soldier), is a Japanese anime television series, produced by Pierrot, which aired from 6 October 1985 to 13 July 1986 on Nippon Television. [4]