Japanese Art
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Japanese art covers a wide range of art styles and media, including ancient pottery, sculpture in wood and bronze, ink painting on silk and paper and more recently manga, cartoon, along with a myriad of other types of works of art. It also has a long history, ranging from the beginnings of human habitation in Japan, sometime in the 10th millennium BC, to the present. Historically, Japan has been subject to sudden invasions of new and alien ideas followed by long periods of minimal contact with the outside world. Over time the Japanese developed the ability to absorb, imitate, and finally assimilate those elements of foreign culture that complemented their aesthetic preferences. The earliest complex art in Japan was produced in the 7th and 8th centuries AD in connection with Buddhism. In the 9th century, as the Japanese began to turn away from China and develop indigenous forms of expression, the secular arts became increasingly important; until the late 15th century, both religious and secular arts flourished. After the Ōnin War (1467–1477), Japan entered a period of political, social, and economic disruption that lasted for over a century. In the state that emerged under the leadership of the Tokugawa shogunate, organized religion played a much less important role in people's lives, and the arts that survived were primarily secular. Painting is the preferred artistic expression in Japan, practiced by amateurs and professionals alike. Until modern times, the Japanese wrote with a brush rather than a pen, and their familiarity with brush techniques has made them particularly sensitive to the values and aesthetics of painting. With the rise of popular culture in the Edo period, a style of woodblock prints called ukiyo-e became a major art form and its techniques were fine tuned to produce colorful prints of everything from daily news to schoolbooks. The Japanese, in this period, found sculpture a much less sympathetic medium for artistic expression; most Japanese sculpture is associated with religion, and the medium's use declined with the lessening importance of traditional Buddhism. Japanese ceramics are among the finest in the world and include the earliest known artifacts of their culture. In architecture, Japanese preferences for natural materials and an interaction of interior and exterior space are clearly expressed. Today, Japan rivals most other modern nations in its contributions to modern art, fashion and architecture, with creations of a truly modern, global, and multi-cultural (or acultural) bent. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License Matching Results for Japanese Art:origamiJan 30, 2011 ... (uncountable) The Japanese art of paper folding. (countable) A piece of art made by folding paper. 1993, Communication arts ... artist Japanese : e e a P ja(ja) (a a a a a a , geijutsuka), c a P ja(ja) (a a , gaka), ... artist (comparative more artist , superlative most artist ) ... jujitsu Sep 27, 2010 ... A method of self-defence established in Japan emphasizing a jA a (soft or gentle) a jitsua ( art or technique). Japanese martial art that ... From Wiktionary under the
GNU Free Documentation License Matching Results for Japanese Art:ArtAll that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art ... Kano Sisters Kyoko Kano (Xie Gong Zi , Kano Kyoko, born 7 October 1962 in Osaka) and Mika Kano (Xie Mei Xiang , Kano Mika, born 23 September 1967 in Saijo, Ehime), known ... Matsuo Basho Sourced Oku no Hosomichi [E]very day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. Matsuo Basho, Narrow Road to the Interior and other writings, Boston, 2000, p. 3 ... From Wikiquote under the
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