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| Art of the Edo Period (1615–1868) |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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A brief overview of artistic production in Japan during the Edo or Tokugawa period. With 9 related artworks.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/edop/hd_edop.htm | |
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| Art of the Pleasure Quarters and the Ukiyo-e Style |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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A lengthy discussion of the social developments in the Edo period that gave rise to literary and visual arts such as kabuki theater and ukiyo-e paintings and woodblock prints. With 5 related artworks.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/plea/hd_plea.htm | |
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| Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868 |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Online presentation of a 2009-2010 exhibition, the "first comprehensive exhibition devoted to the arts of the samurai" and "the first exhibition ever devoted to the subject of Japanese arms and armor conservation." With images of 27 objects.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2009/art-of-the-samurai/photo-ga... | |
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| Great Waves: Chinese Themes in the Arts of Korea and Japan |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Online presentation of a 2003 exhibition that "explores how Chinese pictorial themes—Buddhist iconography, landscape imagery, flower and bird subjects, and figural narratives—were selectively adopted and reinterpreted by native artists in Korea and Japan." With images of 16 related artworks dating from the 10th to the 18th century.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2003/great-waves | |
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| Interiors Imagined: Folding Screens, Garments, and Clothing Stands Source: Interiors Imagined: Fold |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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"The original function and context of a genre of screens referred to today as 'whose sleeves?' screens, or tagasode byôbu, are less well studied and understood. As revealed by more than forty extant examples, artisans from various painting schools depicted on folding screens an array of sumptuously patterned garments casually draped over clothing stands." With images of two screens from the Momoyama period.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/fold/hd_fold.htm | |
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| The Japanese Blade: Technology and Manufacture |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Discusses two important techniques of traditional Japanese sword-making -- kitae (forging the blade) and yaki-ire (hardening the edge). With 5 related art objects.
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