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In this 20 masterworks of Japanese art, we will take a tour through the most important media and themes beloved of Japanese landscape artists through the centuries.
One of the most famous art styles of Japan is that of landscape painting. Historical Japanese landscaping has its roots in Chinese landscape painting, an art style that was brought to Japan by...
Most Japanese landscapes of Shūbun's era are ink paintings of the type known as shigajiku (hanging scrolls with poetry and painting). The shigajiku format is tall and narrow, with more surface space devoted to the poetic inscriptions at the top than to the imaginary landscapes in ink monochrome at the bottom.
His early work of narrow, vertical landscapes picturing thatched houses nestled between cliffs and vignettes of birds perched on flowering branches shows the influence of Chinese scroll painting as well as the previously dominant Kanō school of Japanese painting.
This evocative painting by Bokushō is a variation on a celebrated landscape in the haboku (splashed-ink) technique by the great master Sesshū Tōyō (1420–1506), which is now in the Tokyo National Museum.
Japanese ink painting, or sumi-e, is the embodiment of Japanese aesthetics. Using just simple black ink and carefully curated white space, sumi-e captures the timeless beauty and complexity of the natural world.
Yamato-e painting has endured as a distinctive style of Japanese art, as each generation is drawn in by the allure of a golden age of Japanese culture. With tales of courtly splendor and depictions of the natural world and heroes of the past, yamato-e artists have distilled Japan’s history into resounding images of pleasure and beauty.
Hasegawa Tōhaku’s Pine Trees, also known as Shōrin-zu-byōbu, stands as one of the quintessential masterpieces of Japanese ink painting. It captures the beauty of nature in a style that bridges the viewer to the serene and mystical landscapes often revered in Japanese art.
Biographies and analysis of the work of Japanese Landscape Artists. We are adding more artists every week, so stay tuned as the most important artists in the history of art are given proper coverage.
Aesthetic priests, “tea men,” and connoisseurs created new forms of gardens for cha-shitsu, the little pavilions or rooms built for the chanoyu (tea ceremony), and a special style developed which revolutionized Japanese garden art.