Japan
Painting and sculpture by Meiji and Taisho, Tokyo National Museum
At the end of the Edo Period, the shogunate and the clan artifacts and works of each clan who exhibited…
Japanese ceramics, Tokyo National Museum
Japanese Ceramics is a type of ceramic and is a generic term for those made by hardening and burning soil.…
Japanese Swords, Tokyo National Museum
Japanese Swords (刀剣) is a generic term for weapons equipped with blades or swords that are as long as or…
Japanese metalwork, Tokyo National Museum
Through masterpieces of metalwork from the Nara era to the Edo era, you can see shaping techniques such as casting…
Japanese lacquerware, Tokyo National Museum
Lacquer ware is a traditional technique unique to Toi, applying lacquer which is refined from the sap of Urushi (lizard)…
Japanese sculpture, Tokyo National Museum
Buddha sculptures almost monopolize the history of Japanese sculpture. Buddha statues are broadly classified into four types, Tathamon, Bodhisattva, Ming…
Edo period costume and Ukiyoe print, Tokyo National Museum
During the Edo period, play such as Kabuki became popular, and when the clothing of the actors was introduced in…
Azuchi Momoyama culture, art of samurai, Tokyo National Museum
Momoyama Culture (Momoyama Campaign) or Azuchi Momoyama Culture (Azushi Momoyama Bunka) is a Japanese culture of the Azuchi-Momoyama era when…
Ukiyoe, Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
Katsushika Hokusai's "The 36th Scenery of Futaki" and Utagawa Hiroshige's "Tokaido fifty three" (late exhibition) are landscape prints representing ukiyo-e,…
Western painting, Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
In the new building · permanent exhibition room, it mainly exhibits the Western painting collection of the Tokyo Fuji Art…
Japanese Gardens, Adachi Museum of Art
“The garden is also a picture.” - Welcome to the World of Great Artistic Gardens The gardens vary in appearance…
Seasonal flower paintings, Yamatane Museum of Art
Since ancient times in Japan, I love the flowers that color the seasons, I have poetry in poetry and expressed…
Ukiyoe’s painting of beauty, Yamatane Museum of Art
It can be said that the aesthetic sense and culture cultivated by Japanese people attract attention and that new values…
Animals of Modern Japanese Painting, Yamatane Museum of Art
Japanese have long been fascinated by "life" living creatures such as animals, birds, insects, and have drawn their appearance. Apart…
Japanese painting featuring a clear line, Yamatane Museum of Art
A Japanese painter · Kobayashi Kotori (1883-1957) who focused on lines in Japanese painting as "to show something with cage…