Land of the Rising Sun - Japanese Art

Japanese art covers a wide range of art styles & media, including ancient pottery, sculpture, ink painting & calligraphy on silk & paper, ukiyo-e paintings and woodblock prints, kirigami, origami, and more recently manga—modern Japanese cartooning. "If we study Japanese art, we see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time doing what? He studies a single blade of grass." ~Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) Dutch Post-Impressionist painter.
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Japanese Tosa School album leaf painting depicting Chapter 51 Ukifune (A Boat Upon The Waters) from the “The Tale of Genji” where, Niou takes Ukifune to the Islet of Oranges the scene depicted in gold mist perspective of two figures in a boat with a noble pine tree in the foreground and the rooftop of the castle off in the distance, all painted in ink and mineral pigments on paper with gold leaf clouds and details.
Attibuted to Kano Sansetsu, The Old Plum, Edo PEriod (1615-1868), ca 1645, four sliding door panels (fusuma), ink, colour, gold leaf on paper, The Metropolitian Museum of Art, New York
Artemis Dreaming
Japanese painting. Hirosaki Castle.
to love many things
Kawanabe Kyosai, Crow in a Tree, 19th century
Old Paint
Woman Applying make-up (1918), by Hashiguchi Goyo
Indigo Dreams
Uemura Shoen (1875-1949)
Artemis Dreaming
"Woman Admiring Plum Blossoms at Night' by Suzuki Harunobu