ART HISTO - JAPAN ART

• Circle of enlightenment in zen calligraphy is enso.
• The period of crises in which the control of the country moved from the imperial aristocracy to the samurai is the Kamakura Period.
• The Kamakura period favored more realistic and naturalistic art, a style exemplified by the sculpture of the Kei School.
• Mushin means “no mind state.” This is used in zen calligraphy.
• Sumi-e is known as ink painting.
• To free oneself from this world, Zen

  practitioners meditate.
• Sesshu Toyo painted the Winter Landscape.
• “View of Ama No Hashidate“ is an ink painting with the point of view of a bird along Japan’s coastal landscape.
• Emaki is a common East Asian painting format in Japan. They are also known as painted narrative hand scrolls.
• Otoko-e means “men’s paintings”.
• Kicho is often placed in bamboo blinds.
• Fusuma is an opaque panel slide that flourished during the Heian period.
• A Long Tale for an Autumn Night

  became popular in Japan in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and tells a story of an amorous affair between a

  Buddhist monk and a younger male acolyte called chigo.
• Lovers Walking in the Snow by Suzuki Harunobu emphasizes the intimacy of two lovers strolling in the snow, even suggesting perhaps a michiyuki, a path to a love suicide.
• Tokugawa Ieyasu was the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa

  Shogunate of Japan, which ruled

  from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was one of

  the three "Great Unifiers" of Japan.
• Works of Hizen region were known as the Nabeshima type because the works are commissioned by the Nabeshima clan.
• Nonomura Ninsei is one of the

  best-known potters in Japanese history and developed a technique of decorating stoneware with multicolor overglaze enamels.
• Ogata Kenzan produces a distinctive style of freely

  brushed grasses, blossoms,

  and birds as decorative motifs

  for pottery.
• Yamato-e depict seasonal

  scenery, daily life, and scenes from

  various stories and are created throughout history.
• Ukiyo-e translates to “pictures of the floating world”.
• Tarashikomi is a technique of the Rinpa School.
• Persimmon Tree is a painting that reflects the artist’s interest in

  Western-style realism.