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  2. Japanese sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Dogū, or statuette in the late Jōmon period. Ancient Japanese clay figures are known as dogū (土偶) and haniwa (埴輪).. Early inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago evolved the first Japanese native art in rough earthenware and in strange clay figures called dogū, which are probably fetishes of some religious nature.

  3. List of National Treasures of Japan (sculptures) - Wikipedia

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    Ashura, a Japanese National Treasure sculpture from 734. In the mid-6th century, the introduction of Buddhism from Korea to Japan resulted in a revival of Japanese sculpture. Buddhist monks, artisans and scholars settled around the capital in Yamato Province (present day Nara Prefecture) and passed their techniques to native craftsmen.

  4. Japanese art - Wikipedia

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    Japanese art consists of a wide range of art styles and media that includes ancient pottery, sculpture, ink painting and calligraphy on silk and paper, ukiyo-e paintings and woodblock prints, ceramics, origami, bonsai, and more recently manga and anime. It has a long history, ranging from the beginnings of human habitation in Japan, sometime in ...

  5. Dogū - Wikipedia

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    Dogu (Japanese: 土偶, IPA:; literally "earthen figure") are small humanoid and animal figurines made during the later part of the Jōmon period (14,000–400 BC) of prehistoric Japan. [a] Dogū come exclusively from the Jōmon period, and were no longer made by the following Yayoi period.

  6. Haniwa - Wikipedia

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    Beyond simple appreciation as artistic sculptures, modern popular culture has, in some cases, portrayed the haniwa as containing a sentient entity and not just as a simple empty sculpture. The portrayal of living haniwa has—since the late 1990s—become widespread, being featured in entertainment mediums, including but not limited to: video ...

  7. List of National Treasures of Japan (archaeological materials)

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    The great age of Japanese Buddhist sculpture, AD 600–1300 (illustrated ed.). Kimbell Art Museum. ISBN 0-912804-07-6. Archived from the original on May 6, 2021; Noma, Seiroku (2003). The Arts of Japan: Ancient and medieval. Vol. 1 (illustrated ed.). Kodansha International. ISBN 4-7700-2977-2.

  8. Gangū - Wikipedia

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    The earliest-known stone figures from Japan include a "kokeshi-shape" figurine from the palaeolithic Iwato Site in Ōita Prefecture [4]: 49 and a number of Incipient Jōmon line-incised stones from Kamikuroiwa Iwakage Site in Ehime Prefecture.

  9. Netsuke - Wikipedia

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    In Kyoto, Japan, there is the Kyoto Seishu Netsuke Art Museum, which is the only netsuke specialized art museum in Japan. This museum is a traditional Japanese samurai residence built in the late Edo period. It has a collection of over 5,000 netsuke and 400 of them are on display and change every 3 months. The collection focuses on modern works ...

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