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Fūjin (風神) Also known as Kaze-no-kami, he is the Japanese god of the wind and one of the eldest Shinto gods, said to have been present at the creation of the world. He is often depicted as an oni with a bag slung over his back. Hachiman (八幡神) is the god of war and the divine protector of Japan
A Amenonuhoko Azusa Yumi G Gohei (Japanese: 御幣) Goshintai (Japanese: 御神体) H Hama Yumi (Japanese: 破魔弓) Heisoku (Japanese: 幣束) I Imperial Regalia of Japan (Japanese: 三種の神器) K Kagura suzu (Japanese: 神楽鈴) Kusanagi (Japanese: 草薙の剣) Koma-inu (Japanese: 狛犬) M Mitamashiro (Japanese: 御霊代) N Nihongo or Nippongo (Japanese: 日本号) O O-fuda ...
The earliest religious paintings in Japan were copied using mainland styles and techniques, and are similar to the art of the Chinese Sui dynasty (581–618) or the late Sixteen Kingdoms around the early 5th century. They comprise the oldest extant non-primitive paintings in Japan.
(kept at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo) materials and techniques of western oil painting applied to the Japanese subject of a white-robed Kannon, holding a willow branch in one hand and a water jar in the other [5] 272.0 centimetres (107.1 in) by 181.0 centimetres (71.3 in)
[2] [3] The list presents 50 materials or sets of materials from ancient to feudal Japan, spanning a period from about 4,500 BC to 1361 AD. The actual number of items is more than 50 because groups of related objects have been combined into single entries.
Japanese myths are passed down through oral tradition, through literary sources (including traditional art), and through archaeological sources. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] For much of Japan's history, communities were mostly isolated, which allowed for local legends and myths to grow around unique features of the geographic location where the people who told ...
This list is of the Cultural Properties of Japan designated in the category of paintings (絵画, kaiga) for the Urban Prefecture of Kyōto. [ 1 ] National Cultural Properties
A Japanese chimera with the features of the beasts from the Chinese Zodiac: a rat's head, rabbit ears, ox horns, a horse's mane, a rooster's comb, a sheep's beard, a dragon's neck, a back like that of a boar, a tiger's shoulders and belly, monkey arms, a dog's hindquarters, and a snake's tail.