yamato-e
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Yamato-e (大和絵) is a style of Japanese painting inspired by Zen Buddhism and developed in the late Heian period. It is considered the classical Japanese style, as opposed to the later ukiyo-e and the earlier Chinese kara-e.
The Yamato-e often tell narrative themes with text along with them, show the beauty of nature, e.g. famous places (meisho-e 名所絵), and the four seasons (shiki-e 四季絵). The pictures are non-symbolic and have the objective of depicting the beauty in nature, as Buddha's incarnation. The pictures are often on scrolls that can be hung on a wall (掛け物, kakemono) or handscrolls (emakimono) that could be read from right to left with the accompanied story or on a folding screen (byoubu, 屏風) or panel (shouji, 障子). Although they received their name from the Yamato period (大和), Yamato-e pictures rather stand for a style and are not restricted to a particular period. Although the most famous artists painted in suiboku style in the Muromachi period, this was not characteristic of early pictures.
Yamato-e had a great influence on the Rimpa (琳派) and ukiyo-e (浮世絵) styles, as well as the Nihonga (日本画).
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Nihonga (日本画 Nihonga
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The Yamato-e often tell narrative themes with text along with them, show the beauty of nature, e.g. famous places (meisho-e 名所絵), and the four seasons (shiki-e 四季絵). The pictures are non-symbolic and have the objective of depicting the beauty in nature, as Buddha's incarnation. The pictures are often on scrolls that can be hung on a wall (掛け物, kakemono) or handscrolls (emakimono) that could be read from right to left with the accompanied story or on a folding screen (byoubu, 屏風) or panel (shouji, 障子). Although they received their name from the Yamato period (大和), Yamato-e pictures rather stand for a style and are not restricted to a particular period. Although the most famous artists painted in suiboku style in the Muromachi period, this was not characteristic of early pictures.
Yamato-e had a great influence on the Rimpa (琳派) and ukiyo-e (浮世絵) styles, as well as the Nihonga (日本画).
Yamato-e artists
Famous artists include:References
- A history of Japan, R. H. P. Mason, J. G. Caiger, Tuttle Publishing; Revised edition (November 1, 1997), ISBN 0-8048-2097-X
- msn - Far Eastern Art
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Zen ( or ) is a school of Mahāyāna Buddhism notable for its emphasis on practice and experiential wisdom—particularly as realized in the form of meditation known as zazen—in the attainment of awakening.
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Ukiyo-e (浮世絵|
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buddha (Sanskrit: Awakened) is any being who has become fully awakened (enlightened), and has experienced Nirvana.
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A kakemono (掛け物 kakemono
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Ink and wash painting is an East Asian type of brush painting. It is also known as wash painting, by its Chinese name mo-shui or by its Japanese names, suibokuga (水墨画) or sumi-e (墨絵).
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Muromachi period (Japanese: 室町時代, Muromachi-jidai, also known as the Muromachi era, the Muromachi bakufu, the Ashikaga era, the Ashikaga period, or the Ashikaga bakufu
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Rimpa (琳派), also romanized as Rinpa, is one of the major historical schools of Japanese decorative painting. It was created in the 17th century by the artists Hon'ami Kōetsu (1558-1637) and Tawaraya Sōtatsu (d. c. 1643).
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Ukiyo-e (浮世絵|
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Nihonga (日本画 Nihonga
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Tensho Shubun (周文) (1414 – 1463) was a Japanese painter in the Muromachi period and a Zen Buddhist monk, and - for some time - abbot at the Shokoku-ji temple in Kyoto.
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Josetsu (如拙) (1405 – 1423) was one of the first suiboku style Zen Japanese painters in the Muromachi Period (15th century). He was probably also a teacher of Shubun at the Shokoku-ji monastery in Kyoto.
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Ink and wash painting is an East Asian type of brush painting. It is also known as wash painting, by its Chinese name mo-shui or by its Japanese names, suibokuga (水墨画) or sumi-e (墨絵).
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