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National treasure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The government of Japan designates the most famous of the nation's cultural properties as national treasures of Japan, while the national treasures of Korea are a numbered set of artifacts, sites, and buildings which are recognized by South Korea as having exceptional cultural value. The idea of national treasure, like national epics and national anthem's, is part of the language of Romantic nationalism, which arose in the late 18th century and 19th centuries. Nationalism is an ideology which purports the nation is the fundamental unit of human social life, which includes shared language, values and culture. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_treasure   (311 words)

National treasures of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Many of Japan's national treasures are in museums such as the national museums in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Nara. The prefectural and city governments also operate public museums, and these and private museums also house national treasures. The term living national treasure is an informal designation for a person whom the government has recognized as exemplary in carrying on Japanese traditions. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Treasure_(Japan)   (255 words)

National treasures of Korea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The national treasures of Korea are a numbered set of artifacts, sites, and buildings which are recognized by South Korea as having exceptional cultural value. Some of the national treasures are popular tourist destinations. The Buddha statue at Seokguram Grotto, the 24th Korean national treasure. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_treasures_of_Korea   (424 words)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia Radar images from a National Aeronautics and Space Administration space shuttle yielded evidence of the track of the Silk Road from northwestern China to the Middle East and settlement remains along the route. At the Saguaro National Monument, you can see the largest species of cactus in the United States. Between 1952 and 1954, in a series of articles in the popular magazine Collier's, the German-American rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun presented his vision of a space station as a massive wheel-shaped structure that would rotate to generate “artificial gravity” from centrifugal force, sparing its crew of 1,000 scientists and engineers the drawbacks of weightlessness. www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9276034   (889 words)

Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library - University of Toronto - Internet Resources National Folk Museum of Korea The National Folk Museum of Korea, located in the Gyeongbokgung Palace, features aspects of both the traditional folk culture of ordinary people and that of the aristocracy, centering particularly on the Chosun Dynasty. National Museum of Contemporary Art This is the official website for the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Korea. National Museum of Korea This is the official website for the National Museum of Korea. eir.library.utoronto.ca /eas/eal/internet_resources/display_links.cfm?language=k&Heading=Arts   (1516 words)

The Korea Times : NK Treasures to Go on Display Around 15 national treasures of North Korea will be exhibited at the Ilmin Museum of Art in central Seoul from May 7 to July 10. Korea University on Saturday announced that it will exhibit the treasures, originating from the ancient Koguryo Kingdom (~A.D. 668), from the North’s Korean Central History Museum. Other 45 treasures from the North and 170 ancient art works preserved in the South will also be on display. times.hankooki.com /lpage/culture/200504/kt2005042519430811720.htm   (116 words)

Korea, 1900 A.D.-present Timeline of Art History The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Museum of the Government-General of Korea (established under Japanese colonial rule) is renamed and opens as the National Museum of Korea. In the postcolonial period, Korea struggles with the issue of how to reconcile the positive developments of the colonial era and the unforgettable brutality, humiliation, and loss. The Government-General of Korea (Japanese: chôsen shôtokufu; Korean: chosôn ch'ongdokpu), the chief colonial administrative unit in Seoul with direct ties to Japan, controls all aspects of governance–political, social, economic, and cultural. www.metmuseum.org /toah/ht/11/eak/ht11eak.htm   (990 words)

The Korea Times : North's Treasures May Come to Seoul The National Museum of Korea will exhibit about 100 national treasures from North Korea in October for the first time since Korea’s division, reported The Hankyoreh, on Friday. The daily quoted an unidentified government source as saying that heritage-related officials from the two Koreas met in Beijing early this month and agreed to display the national treasures from the Choson Central History Museum in Pyongyang. The special exhibition is to celebrate the reopening of the National Museum of Korea on Oct. 28 in central Seoul after renovations. times.hankooki.com /lpage/culture/200508/kt2005081920374511710.htm   (138 words)

The Japan Times Online treasures themselves are both a testament to the sweep of cultural influence throughout Asia, and to the impact of other Asian cultures on Korea. The concept for the museum is a radical departure from tradition, since it provides a forum for exploring Korean art and its heritage in the context of national and regional history. Another magnificent national treasure on display is a crown excavated from a royal tomb site in Hwangnamdaechong that dates back to the fifth century. www.japantimes.co.jp /cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fa20051215a1.htm   (1076 words)

Goryeo Dynasty: Korea’s Age of Enlightenment Goryeo Dynasty features 113 rare and superb artworks (seven are designated as National Treasures of Korea) from this period—many on view in the United States for the first time—including extraordinary celadon ceramics, Buddhist paintings and sculptures, illustrated sutras (sacred Buddhist texts), ritual implements, metal crafts, and lacquer wares. The Goryeo dynasty, the middle period in Korea’s traditional history, emerged from the disintegration of the Unified Silla dynasty and ended with the rise of the Joseon dynasty. Holding nearly 15,000 Asian art treasures spanning 6,000 years of history, the museum is one of the largest museums in the Western world devoted exclusively to Asian art. www.asianart.com /exhibitions/korea/intro.html   (1380 words)

Webshots AP News Headlines Gone were irreplaceable archaeological treasures from the Cradle of Civilization. Sensing its treasures could be in peril, museum curators secretly removed antiquities from their display cases before the war and placed them into storage vaults - but to no avail. Other treasures believed to be housed at the museum - such as the Ram in the Thicket from Ur, a statue representing a deity from 2600 B.C. - are no doubt gone, perhaps forever, he said. daily.webshots.com /content/ap/current/h38043486.html   (937 words)

artcollection.htm These objects include replicas of several of the national treasures of Korea, as well as original paintings, pottery, figurines, scrolls, calligraphy, and furniture. Yusan traveled to the Sorak range on Korea's eastern coast for a month of study and then spent six months completing the work. Cases in the main lobby and on the second floor display cultural artifacts from Korea. www.hawaii.edu /korea/pages/about/artcollection.htm   (207 words)

The Foreign Street China Brief An exhibition of 300 national treasures from South Korea, China and Japan for touring around the world within the next three years is being planned, the Cultural Heritage Administration announced Wednesday. While meeting South Korea's Prime Minister Lee Hae-chan on the eve of the global summit in the Indonesian capital to discuss the aftermath of the South Asian tsunami on Dec. 26, Wen said Seoul's handling of the nuclear issue was ``reasonable.'' January 6 was marked by China's number crunchers as the day the nation's population officially hit 1.3billion, though it has long been rounded off to that figure informally. radio.weblogs.com /0141895/outlines/050107.html   (2688 words)

Looting National Treasures by Gary North When governments do the defining, "national treasure" means "nationalized treasure." It means "too important to be left in the possession of individuals." The State claims the authority to liberate national treasures from profit-seeking owners, who would otherwise waste them. The entire region's governments have long defined the stone idols and monuments of past government administrations as national treasures, meaning government-controlled treasures. The most famous of these artifacts were relics of very ancient regional governments that were famous mainly for stealing everyone else's national treasures. www.lewrockwell.com /north/north172.html   (1962 words)

MUSEUM SECURITY MAILINGLIST REPORTS The Gustav Klimt painting that is to be the centrepiece of the main exhibition next summer at the National Gallery of Canada appears on the newly compiled list of 110 gallery-owned artworks with mysterious gaps in their provenance from the Nazi era. Koutsoupis told Craxton the figurine was commissioned by an antiquities dealer called Zoumboulaki, who sent him photographs of a figure of a harp player from the national museum in Athens. An elderly archaeology professor, allowed to look round his living room, hinted that some of the missing treasures were now in Gailani's hands. www.museum-security.org /01/001.html   (4495 words)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arts of Korea Drawn from the extraordinary collection of The National Museum of Korea in Seoul as well as from important private collections in Korea, Japan, and the United States, and including works from the Metropolitan’s collection, it is the first comprehensive display of Korean masterpieces to be seen in the United States in nearly 20 years. Chung Yang-mo, Director General of The National Museum of Korea, noted: " The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a treasure house of world cultures, exemplifies the American people’s appreciation of artistic excellence and their belief that international mutual understanding is furthered by cultural interchange. Forty ceramics on view -- ranging from the earthenware of the Neolithic period to the celebrated celadons of the Kory4 dynasty (918-1392) and the white porcelains and punch’4ng ("powder-green") ware of the Chos4n dynasty (1392-1910) -- demonstrate the skill and ingenuity of the Korean potter. www.metmuseum.org /explore/korea/information.html   (1233 words)

Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea This is the first time Korean national treasures are going to Australia and it is part of celebrating the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Visiting Korea for the preparations of the exhibition, Heather Chandler, the relics management supervisor of Powerhouse, said many Australians regarded Korean pottery as imitations of Chinese or Japanese pottery because it hasn't been properly introduced their, but that this year's exhibitions would help break such prejudice. The idea of the exhibition was first proposed by the Powerhouse Museum, which is to exhibit Greek statues and Leonardo Da Vinci's sketches around the same time as three official exhibitions for the Olympic Games. english.chosun.com /w21data/html/news/200006/200006050243.html   (114 words)

Paris Voice September 2002 Theater But as the 31st Festival d'Automne demonstrates by inviting Korea as its featured guest, shamanism continues to enrich culture: centuries of traditions, beliefs and rites remain at the heart of contemporary arts in a country torn by over 50 years of conflict yet turned increasingly towards national reconciliation and a prosperous future. As the presence of Korea's great treasures shows, the shaman's dance, no longer relegated to the realm of folklore, seeks to bridge past and present for improved human understanding and development into the 21st century. As for Korea's best known traditional art, Pansori, this unique mono-opera performed by one highly gifted, meticulously trained performer is a direct descendant of shamanism in that a unique individual incarnates a host of personalities and brings to life single-handedly an epic story of human struggle to transcend worldly cares. parisvoice.com /02/sept/html/theater.cfm   (584 words)

Artists in the Classroom He has studied traditional music with two National Treasures in Korea and Japan and a number of master musicians in more than ten different cultures. She was a professional dancer touring nationally and internationally with numerous performance companies, including Paula Ross, Kokoro, and Snake in the Grass. At seventeen, he was invited to join the Ballet National de Côte d'Ivoire based in Abidjan. www.bctf.ca /social/GlobalEd/music/artist.html   (1226 words)

The Treasures of Korea and Japan On the palace grounds are the National Museum and the Folk Museum which house an impressive collection of 5,000 years of Korea art and cultural artifacts. Later you are transferred to the Korean Folk Village, designed and devised to preserve the various aspects of Korea’s traditional life. Your half day Seoul sightseeing tour begins with the Kyongbok Palace, the royal family’s court since 1392 when Seoul was decreed the capital city of the Yi Dynasty. www.conferencetours.com /Orient_TreasuresKoreaJapan.htm   (616 words)

Tsui Design & Research Inc. In The Media Louis Marines, former National President of the American Institute of Architects describes Tsui, “His work is a striking combination of nature’s design thinking and unbridled artistic expression; a wonderful and much needed blend of the natural and the distinctively individual. They are from all over the globe, Africa, Scotland, Taiwan, Korea, Canada, China, Japan and the USA and they have come here to work with Eugene Tsui; to learn about this extraordinary approach to design, to learn from nature; and to be in a creative setting unlike any other office. It is my hope, that in the not too distant future people will look back at these times and say, there lived a people that were not afraid to turn their backs on the edicts of society, who were not afraid to turn away from the violent consequences of symbolism, nationalism and profiteering. www.tdrinc.com /media.html   (7924 words)

artnet.com Magazine Features - Buddhism Quest Many are designated national treasures of Korea or Japan. One of the highlights of the show is the Sakyamuni (historical Buddha) at Birth, considered a Japanese national treasure. This 9th century, 47 inch high iron figure from the Seoul National Museum portrays a smiling Buddha seated on a lotus base. www.artnet.com /Magazine/features/stern/stern7-14-03.asp   (687 words)

Korean Resources Web server map of Korea, but from this link to a city server you can find the list of National Treasures, Photo Galleries, University listings, and much more. Korea section is geared for native English Speaking students of Korea and the Korean Language. Another city locations map is the Sensitive Map of Korea. kalaniosullivan.com /Korea/KunsanCity/Korresource2.html   (1072 words)

Victor Davis Hanson on war on National Review Online These are regimes — like the other "axis" Korea — who in a few years will be willing and able to kill millions of us. And so just as in the first lull between Sept. 11 and Oct. 7, we are now in another — completely natural — breathing spell between the end of the organized resistance on Dec. 18 and more challenging operations in the months ahead. None of them are impressed by a Tomahawk missile, a U.N. resolution, or a few million dollars in American bribe money. www.nationalreview.com /hanson/hanson021902.shtml   (1408 words)

103page Contrast the brightness of South Korea with the darkness of the North This survey course deals with the history of traditional society in East Asia (China, Japan, and Korea). 10/23 (W) #24: The Dynasties of Conquest in China and Korea userpages.umbc.edu /~vaporis/103page.html   (1610 words)

ksik information on korea From Tradition to Consumption: Construction of a Capitalist Culture in South Korea, by Dennis Hart. Whether you know a lot about Korea or a little, the links on this page will help you learn more. Korea's Place in the Sun, by Bruce Cumings www.personal.kent.edu /~dhart/ksik/ksikkorea.htm   (162 words)

Great National Treasures of China National Credentials (or Letters of Credence) are the documents given to a head of state by another head of state on behalf of his government. The Palace Museum has a number of credentials from Korea, Russia, Annam, Thailand, Belgium, Burma, the Vatican and Japan. The illustration shows a document of this type dispatched by the Ch'ing Empire to Great Britain in both Chinese and Manchu versions. park.org /Taiwan/Culture/museum/npmtr/B1118/B111802/index.htm   (117 words)

U.S. imperialists' looting of Korean national treasures It is well known a fact that a great number of cultural treasures of the Korean nation are on display at most of museums and galleries in the United States. Even after the liberation of Korea on August 15, 1945 they took away a large number of treasures from South Korea. Pyongyang, July 22 (KCNA) -- Recorded in the U.S. imperialists' 100-odd-year-long history of aggression on Korea are evidences of their looting of cultural treasures. www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/dprk/2003/07/dprk-030723-kcna04.htm   (232 words)

Japan's Impact on the Asian Image Asian American Issues GoldSea "The theory that Korea and Japan were descendants of one ancestor was the historical reasoning behind the Japanese annexation of Korea. A nation that should command the stature of a powerhouse -- and elevate the image of all Asians in the process -- possesses the geopolitical profile of, say, Switzerland, a nation a thirtieth its size. It seems only natural that K was more advanced at that time, as technology and culture was travelling in a easterly direction - from middle east to india to china to korea... goldsea.com /Air/Issues/Japan/japan_21105.html   (2170 words)

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