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2000 Years of Japanese Art

Book by Yukio Yashiro, Peter C. Swann; Thames and Hudson, 1958

Subjects:

Art, Buddhist, Art, Japanese

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...whose spacious galleries the Japanese paintings and sculptures...predellas of Italian altar-pieces. Japanese artists developed these scrolls as a means of illustrating...me a sense of freedom--as if Japanese art was for the first time...
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Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints: The Early Years

Book by Helen Merritt; University of Hawaii, 1990

Subjects:

Color Prints, Japanese--20th Century

Collections: Entire Library

Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints Modern Japanese Woodblock...After graduating from the curriculum in Japanese-style painting at the Tokyo School of...role of the artist was to make superior paintings for carvers and printers to convert into...
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Japanese Aesthetics and Culture: A Reader

Book by Nancy G. Hume; State University of New York Press, 1995

Subjects:

Aesthetics, Japanese, Arts, Japanese--Philosophy

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...than to state in full was surely behind the preference for ink paintings. No people has a surer sense of color than the Japanese, and there are many splendid Japanese works of art in brilliant colors; but in the medieval period especially, many painters...
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Modern Japanese Stories: An Anthology

Book by Ivan Morris, Edward Seidensticker, George Saitō, Geoffrey Sargent; Charles E. Tuttle Publishing, 1962

Subjects:

Japan--Social Life And Customs--Fiction, Short Stories, Japanese--Translations Into English

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Modern Japanese Stories MODERN This work has been accepted in the Japanese Translations Series of the Unesco Collection of...Scientific and Cultural Organization Unesco and the Japanese National Commission for Unesco MODERN JAPANESE...
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Rice as Self: Japanese Identities through Time

Book by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney; Princeton University Press, 1993

Subjects:

Japan--Civilization, National Characteristics, Japanese, Rice--Social Aspects--Japan

Collections: History, Entire Library

...They also represent our pristine past before modernity and foreign influences contaminated it. Rice paddies then embody Japanese space and time, that is, Japanese land and history chap. 6 . But the self represented by rice and rice paddies has undergone...

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Japanese Art

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...During the Nara period the traditional technical methods of Japanese painting were established. The work was executed upon thin...emakimono that survive today are from the Kamakura period. These scrolls are often executed in continuous narrative form, often with...
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Kano , Family or School of Japanese Painters

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

KANO , family or school of Japanese painters ka no, family or school of Japanese painters...own. He became one of the most vigorous and versatile of Japanese painters. He worked in both Edo and Kyoto, decorating castles...
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Japanese Architecture

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE structures created on the islands that constitute Japan. Evidence of prehistoric architecture in Japan...paintings. The Katsura palace is remarkable for its simplicity and elegance and its merging of outdoor and indoor spaces. Here Japanese taste is epitomized in the subtlety and delicacy of the landscaping, with an ingenious arrangement of rocks, pebbles, sand...
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Freer, Charles Lang

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...from the Leyland house, London, which had Whistler decorations. The gallery also contains a fine collection of Chinese and Japanese paintings and art objects and a remarkable collection of antique glazed pottery with examples from Egypt, Persia, India...
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Kaigetsudo

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

KAIGETSUDO kiget soodo, school of Japanese artists painting in the ukiyo-e style (see Japanese art ). Kaigetsudo was founded by Kaigetsudo Ando in the early 18th cent. Characterized by broad lines, majestic poses, restrained color, and boldly...

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