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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.
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.
Cleveland Museum of Art: 1,950 [8] USA Eugene, Oregon: Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art: 3,000+ Mainly Edo period prints USA Los Angeles: Pavilion for Japanese Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art USA Newark, New Jersey: The Newark Museum of Art: 7,000 Concentrated in Edo, Meiji and Showa periods USA New York: Ronin Gallery
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Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery (聖徳記念絵画館, Seitoku Kinen Kaigakan) is a gallery commemorating the "imperial virtues" of Japan's Meiji Emperor, installed on his funeral site in the Gaien or outer precinct of Meiji Shrine in Tōkyō. The gallery is one of the earliest museum buildings in Japan and itself an Important Cultural Property.
When the dazzling 16-foot-high leaded stained- glass window arrived in Canton in 1913, it made front-page news—and postponed the new church’s dedication by a week because of a shipping delay.
Rough Waves (Japanese: 波濤 図 屏風) is a painting by the Japanese artist Ogata Kōrin, on a two-panel byōbu (folding screen). The work was created c. 1704 – c. 1709, and depicts a swirl of stormy sea waves.
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