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Module:Location map/data/United States Chicago Downtown is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Downtown Chicago. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The first group of Japanese in Chicago arrived in 1892. They came as part of the Columbian Exposition so they could build the Ho-o-den Pavilion in Chicago. [1] In 1893 the first known Japanese individual in Chicago, Kamenosuke Nishi, moved to Chicago from San Francisco. He opened a gift store, and Masako Osako, author of "Japanese Americans ...
Yamato clan, clan active in Japan since the Kofun period; Yamato-damashii, the "Japanese spirit", or Yamato-gokoro, the "Japanese heart/mind" Yamato nadeshiko, the ideology of the perfect Japanese woman; Yamato Takeru, a legendary Japanese prince of the imperial dynasty; Yamato-e, classical Japanese painting; Yamato-uta, alternative term for waka
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.