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	Japanese art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		They 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.
		The best-known Japanese architect is Kenzo Tange, whose National Gymnasiums (1964) for the Tokyo Olympics emphasizing the contrast and blending of pillars and walls, and with sweeping roofs reminiscent of the tomo-e (an ancient whorl-shaped heraldic symbol) are dramatic statements of form and movement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_Art (4219 words)

	MSN Encarta - Japanese Art and Architecture
		Japanese ceramics are among the finest in the world and include the earliest known artifacts of their culture (see Pottery).
		The Kondō, in the style of Chinese worship halls, is a two-story structure of post-and-beam construction, capped by an irimoya, or hipped-gabled roof of ceramic tiles.
		The central image is a Shaka Trinity (623), the historical Buddha flanked by two bodhisattvas (Buddhist saints), a sculpture cast in bronze by the sculptor Tori Busshi (flourished early 7th century) in homage to the recently deceased Prince Shōtoku.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761577854/Japanese_Art_and_Architecture.html (1090 words)

	FREE In-depth report - Sculpture - Japan
		The stimulus of Western art forms returned sculpture to the Japanese art scene and introduced the plaster cast, outdoor heroic sculpture, and the school of Paris concept of sculpture as an "art form." Such ideas adapted in Japan during the late nineteenth century, together with the return of state patronage, rejuvenated sculpture.
		Because hard sculpture stone is not native to Japan, most outdoor pieces were created from stainless steel, plastic, or aluminum for "tension and compression" machine constructions of mirror-surfaced steel or for elegant, polished-aluminum, ultramodern shapes.
		The new Japanese experimental sculptors could be understood as working with Buddhist ideas of permeability and regeneration in structuring their forms, in contrast to the general Western conception of sculpture as something with finite and permanent contours.
	www.exploitz.com /Japan-Sculpture-cg.php (748 words)

	ASIA SOCIETY: THE COLLECTION IN CONTEXT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The introduction of Buddhism to Japan was one of the most important events in Japanese history and had a lasting effect on the development of the country's thought, art and culture.
		According to Japanese sources, Buddhism was introduced from the Korean kingdom of Paekche in either 538 or 552 as part of a series of diplomatic exchanges that also led to a broader awareness of the beliefs and material culture of China and Korea.
		Japanese Buddhist art in the Asia Society's collection dates from the 8th to the 14th century and includes examples of clay, bronze, and wood sculpture as well as a number of hanging scrolls.
	www.asiasocietymuseum.org /region_results.asp?RegionID=6&CountryID=14&ChapterID=38 (190 words)

	Japanese Bobtail pedigree cat breed profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Japanese Bobtails at Kiddlyn Cattery are bred by Linda K. Donaldson.
		It is said that Japanese silk farmers depended on them to keep the farms free from vermin.
		In 1971, the Japanese Bobtail was given provisional status in The Cat Fanciers' Association (CFA) and was accepted for championship competition in 1976.
	www.catsinfo.com /japbobtail.html (682 words)

	AMSA EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS
		The majority of Japanese artists who create medallic sculpture do not exhibit their work in international medal art exhibitions.
		Japan has a long history in the use of delicate techniques and expression in art objects which fit into ones hand like netsuke (a small carved ornament on a pillbox or a tobacco pouch), kanzashi and kushi (womans hair ornaments) and tsuba (sword guard).
		The first coins were designed by a famous Japanese silversmith and his school, and produced under the supervision of British technicians who were employed by the Japanese government until 1876.
	www.amsamedals.org /japanese.htm (570 words)

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		The oni is a fabulous creatures from Japanese folklore, similar to the Western demon or ogre.
		Delightfully rendered Japanese bronze and gold okimono of birds in a highly stylized setting of rocks and running water, Taisho Era, c.
		Impressive Japanese bronze sculpture of a magnificently rendered falcon tending its nest, early 20th century, c.
	www.fareastasianart.com /directory/Japanese:Sculpture:Bronze.html (658 words)

	Japanese Culture and Civilization (Safford) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This is an illustrated lecture course pertaining to the painting, sculpture, architecture and craft arts created in Japan from Prehistoric times to the twentieth century.
		The course wlll examine, in chronnlogical sequence, the historical and cultural events and persons of significance who shaped the appearance and content of Japanese art, the purposes of works of art, their media and technique, and their style.
		Due on Monday of the tenth week of class is a ten page research paper on a topic of your choice, to be approved by me. Be sure to discuss the topic with me by the end of the third week of class.
	library.kcc.hawaii.edu /external/asdp/art/easian/japan/safford.html (1399 words)

	Mirago : Regional: Asia: Japan: Arts and Entertainment: Traditional
		History of Japanese Incense - Educational webpage on the history and evolution of Japanese incense ceremonies and culture.
		Japanese Art in the Asia Society Collection - Exhibition of more than 25 objects in the collection.
		Japanese Artistic Traditions - Discussion of aesthetic concepts, and of the activities of the Department of Cultural Affairs, established in 1968.
	www.miragorobot.com /scripts/dir.aspx?cat=Top/Regional/Asia/Japan/Arts_and_Entertainment/Traditional (560 words)

	Japanese Coiling Dragon - AMAM
		This sculpture is not signed or dated, but is attributable to the Meiji period on the basis of its size and style.
		One of the main modes of Japanese export during the Meiji period was through the World's Fairs and Expositions that were held every few years in the West at that time.
		Many of the Japanese objects sent to the West for these occasions are characterized by their monumental size, rococo style, and/or opulent visual effects intended to immediately attract the attention of viewers.
	www.oberlin.edu /allenart/collection/japanese-dragon.html (785 words)

	sculpture
		According to Japanese belief, children who die prematurely are sent to Hell because they have brought so much sadness to their parents.
		When many of the Myo-o sculptures were made in the Heian period, Japanese sculpture was said to be in decline, partly because many of important monasteries were in remote locations, and partly because more attention was paid to correct iconography than artistic beauty.
		The sculptures from this era look extremely realistic and it was at this time that sculptors began using quartz crystals for eyes, making the faces seem almost alive.
	www3.tky.3web.ne.jp /~edjacob/sculpture.html (4571 words)

	Regional > Asia > Japan > Arts and Entertainment > Traditional (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Only one illustration from each category of the Japanese collection (painting, lacquer, and armor), but text description includes a history of each category, as well as of the particular work displayed.
		Educational webpage on the history and evolution of Japanese incense ceremonies and culture.
		Collection of 100 poems in the tanka variety used in Japanese royal courts, compiled from the 7th to the 13th century.
	www.xasa.es /directorio/dmoz/Top/Regional/Asia/Japan/Arts_and_Entertainment/Traditional (722 words)

	Japanese Cranes - Sculpture Art by Chapel
		Description: I first began working on this series of crane sculptures in 1987, when I was asked to participate in a fundraising effort by the Boulder County Hospice.
		Japanese cranes are monogamous and feature prominently on wedding kimonos, quilts, many forms of artwork and in folksongs and dances.
		Today there is a bronze sculpture in Japan honoring this legend, which is often covered with folded paper cranes.
	www.natureartists.com /artists/artist_artwork.asp?ArtworkID=3228 (341 words)

	Japanese Aesthetics As Seen In Contemporary Art (Tamisiea) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This material may also be used as a lecture component for the study of inter-cultural communications and the humanities.
		GOAL: To infuse Japanese art into the arts and humanities curriculum and collect resource materials in the form of slides, film, books, exhibition catalogues and prints.
		OBJECTIVE: To bring a greater awareness of the Japanese cultural spirit and approach to a variety of visual forms to students of the arts and humanities by studying artistic design trends, and to create a diverse basis from which to make aesthetic decisions and judgments.
	library.kcc.hawaii.edu /external/asdp/art/easian/japan/jaesth.html (405 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2002015627
		Japanese American artist Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) is renowned for his stone and bronze sculpture, his gardenlike installations in public spaces, and his furniture designs.
		Noguchi's sculptures in the medium of clay reveal informal, spontaneous, and humorous aspects not visible in less flexible media such as bronze or stone.
		An understanding of the nature and scope of the concerns Noguchi expressed through clay is crucial to understanding his work as a whole, and consideration of Japanese ceramic artists in the 1950s reveals a largely unknown genre of modern Japanese art.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/ucal042/2002015627.html (349 words)

	bleu et blanc/Blue & White America, Inc. Antiques,Regional Art,Asian,Japanese,Sculpture Directory
		This lovely sculpture is within the folk genre of buddhist carvings, and may have been from a home or small local countryside shrine.
		Known in Japanese as “Juichimen Kannon”, (11-headed Kannon) this bodhisattva is symbolic of both wisdom and compassion, existing in this world to offer humanity salvation; her numerous heads have varied expressions, to indicate her actively hearing people’s prayers.
		This extraordinary sculpture came from a private Japanese collection, and is a marvelous example of both Buddhist and folk sculpture.
	www.trocadero.com /blueandwhiteamerica/catalog/Antiques:Regional_Art:Asian:Japanese:Sculpture.html (648 words)

	GODS of Japan - A-to-Z Photo Dictionary of Japanese Buddhist & Shinto Deities
		Second, it is a tribute to Kamakura, my home for the past 12 years, and home to dozens of temples from the Kamakura Era (1185-1333), which still house and display wondrous life-size wooden statues from the 8th century onward.
		But I must admit, I have yet to find anything that satisfies me. Mountains of publications are out there, but in my mind they suffer from too much preaching, promoting, inconsistency, inaccuracy, and just plain "unreadability." There are some excellent resources (see bibliography), mind you, but yet I'm unsatisfied.
		To provide as much precision as possible, the Japanese ideograms (kanji) are also presented, showing both the standard Japanese spelling and its hiragana equivalent.
	www.onmarkproductions.com /html/buddhism.shtml (914 words)

	Samuel C. Morse - Amherst College
		“Japanese Sculpture In Transition: An Eighth-Century Example from the Tōdai-ji Buddhist Sculpture Workshop.” Museum Studies, vol.
		Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, Columbia University, December, 2002.
		Symposium held in conjunction with the exhibition "Kamakura: The Renaissance of Japanese Buddhist Sculpture 1185-1333." " Enlivening the Image: Symbolic Naturalism in the Sculpture of the Kamakura Period."
	www.amherst.edu /~scmorse/publications.html (1106 words)

	Fujiya Antiques, LLC Antiques,Regional Art,Asian,Japanese Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Japanese shishi combines elements of the earlier forms of both the Korean "Koma-inu" or Korean dog and Chinese "Kara-shishi" or Chinese lion.
		I attribute it as Japanese based on the form of the Hotei and style of decoration but it could also perhaps be Chinese.
		The bowl clearly is a testament to long life, happiness, and good fortune and one imagines it was made for use by a newly married couple to ensure familial bliss.
	www.fujiyaantiques.com /catalog/Antiques:Regional_Art:Asian:Japanese20.html (918 words)

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		As was always the case in these early Japanese wooden carvings, the piece is constructed of many blocks of wood that have been tightly glue...
		A large and extremely well carved figure of a farmer intently gazing at an egg to determine whether it is fertile.
		Stunning Japanese hand-carved wood and gilt statue of Nyorai Kannon, god/dess of mercy and compassion, Edo period, c.
	www.fareastasianart.com /directory/Japanese:Sculpture70.html (686 words)

	Sculpture (from Japan) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Japanese sculpture of the pre-Buddhist period is perhaps best represented by the haniwa (clay cylinders), which date from the 3rd to the 5th century.
		type of sculpture attributed to a legendary Greek artist, Daedalus, who is connected in legend both to Bronze Age Crete and to the earliest period of Archaic sculpture in post-Bronze Age Greece.
		sculpture in which movement (as of a motor-driven part or a changing electronic image) is a basic element.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article?tocId=203182 (867 words)

	SOFA - Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Exposition Chicago and New York
		Japanese Ceramic Sculpture: Legacy and Change, featuring Yasuo Hayashi, Tsubusa Katoh, Kosuke Kaneshige, Goro Suzuki, Kazuo Tagiguchi and other artists with stellar reputations in Japan and internationally.
		Japan’s long tradition of useful wares was challenged and enlivened after World War II by avant-garde artists such as Osamu Suzuki and Kazuo Yagi, who were interested in the “object as object” without regard to utility.
		Since then, purely sculptural expression has had an important place in Japanese ceramic art, and the scene today is especially lively and provocative, as works by these artists demonstrate.
	www.sofaexpo.com /NY/2004/cdaw/dai.htm (163 words)

	Arts & Activities: Netsuke: unique Japanese miniature sculpture
		Netsuke is a small, sculptural art that communicated social values as part of a custom in Japanese society during the early days, especially in the Edo era.
		Netsuke became an important part of the historical record of Japanese society and is still considered a unique art form today.
		It is believed that the introduction of tobacco into Japan by the Portuguese in 1542 was an important reason for the creation of a large amount of netsuke so that tobacco pouches and pipes could be suspended from the waist.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0HTZ/is_5_130/ai_81219614 (1211 words)

	Robyn Buntin of Honolulu: Japanese Gallery
		This is the name the Japanese call the two guardians at the sides of the temple gate.
		Hotei is one of the seven Japanese Shinto gods of luck (Shichi Fukujin), depicted with a great belly.
		The sculpture is the abstracted form of a marlin leaping.
	www.robynbuntin.com /Japanese/g_Sculpture.asp (257 words)

	Japanese Art at LACMA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Pavilion for Japanese Art is unique in America as a separate building dedicated to the display of Japanese Art within the complex of a large, encyclopedic museum.
		The second-level West Wing gallery is devoted to the display of archaeological materials, Buddhist and Shinto sculpture, ceramics rendered in a quiet, naturalistic manner for tea or in elaborate style for décor or food service, lacquer wares, textiles, armor, and cloisonné.
		The museum’s Japanese print collection contains important examples of traditional woodblock prints from the Edo period (1615—1868), especially the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
	www.lacma.org /art/perm_col/japanese/japan.htm (486 words)

	Fujiya Antiques, LLC Vintage Arts,Regional Art,Asian,Japanese Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This favorite fish of the Japanese is made of iron with a lacquer coating, presumably to be used as a serving piece.
		This is an appealing piece of pottery with a warm oatmeal glaze and bold outline and coloration of the tree branch and blossoms.
		As such, he is associated with long life in the pantheon of Japanese “household gods.” This Jurojin measures 6” tall, 4” at the widest point of his body, and 3” across the base.
	www.fujiyaantiques.com /catalog/Vintage_Arts:Regional_Art:Asian:Japanese.html (751 words)

	Open Directory - Regional: Asia: Japan: Arts and Entertainment: Traditional (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Japanese Art - Includes examples used in Japanese sword art, prints, cases and netsuke.
		Japanese Art and Architecture - Gives brief overview and characteristics of Japanese art throughout history.
		Japanese Gardens and the Art of Suggestion - The Japanese see the garden as an interpretation of an idealised understanding of nature.
	dmoz.org /Regional/Asia/Japan/Arts_and_Entertainment/Traditional (878 words)

	Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Art of China - Sculpture
		The study investigates the sculpture of the 6th century, its stylistic evolution of sculptural traditions at the court, using images from cave temples of Xiangtang and Tianlong mountains.
		Chinese Sculpture from the Fifth to the Fourteenth Century.
		Explores the artistic, iconographic and cultural features of Buddhist stone sculptures from the monastery, the Tower of Seven Jewels, of the Tang dynasty in modern Xi an, which represented the emergence of a new period of sculpture with more substantial volume and anatomical clarity.
	www.si.edu /resource/faq/freersac/chinsclp.htm (933 words)

	Antiques, Regional Art, Asian, Japanese, Sculpture on Trocadero
		Japanese Celadon Porcelain Okimono of Jo and Uba.
		This particular cult combined Buddhist, Shinto and Taoist thought, and the figure of En no Gyoja is recognized as the founder of this movem...
		The overall size w/stand: 36"H x 27"W x 19"D, Sculpture alone, 29 3/4"H x 22" W x 19 1/2"D. The subject of Large Elephant with three male tigers.
	www.trocadero.com /directory/Antiques:Regional_Art:Asian:Japanese:Sculpture70.html (826 words)

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