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In 2011 the greatest tectonic disaster in the history of mankind occurs. As a result of catastrophic earthquakes, massive volcanic eruptions, and huge tsunamis, North and South America, Eurasia, Africa, Indonesia and Australia sink underwater while the Japanese islands remain untouched, thanks to the Chinese land which has sunk and gone underneath them.
Modern Japanese art is often heavily influenced by the nation's unique relationship with technology, frequently marrying traditional forms and concepts with new aesthetics and anxieties of the technological present, as well as being heavily influenced by the nation's varied economic history following the Second World War. Modern Japanese art ...
This work has revolutionized the way Japanese art history is viewed, and Edo period painting has become one of the most popular areas of Japanese art in Japan. In recent years, scholars and art exhibitions have often added Hakuin Ekaku and Suzuki Kiitsu to the six artists listed by Tsuji, calling them the painters of the "Lineage of Eccentrics".
2025 in art - Death of La Chunga, Ed Askew, Peter Brandes, Elisabeth Haarr, Philippa Blair, Leo Segedin, Alastair MacKinven, Oliviero Toscani, David Lynch, George A. Tice, Jules Feiffer, Aaron De Groft, Jo Baer, Håkon Bleken, Renina Katz, Rutherford Chang, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Graham Nickson, Lim Tze Peng, Waldo Díaz-Balart, Satoru Abe, Walter Robinson, Mustafa Arruf
The Japanese ship Kanrin Maru arrives in San Francisco with the delegation, marking the first official visit to a foreign state following the end of its 214-year isolationist policy, demonstrating the degree to which Japan had mastered Western navigation techniques and ship technologies in the 6 years since opening its borders.
Ukiyo-e [a] (浮世絵) is a genre of Japanese art that flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; flora and fauna; and erotica.
Art of Edo Japan: The Artist and the City 1615-1868. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-16413-8. Julia Meech and Jane Oliver, ed. (2008). Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680-1860. Asia Society and Japanese Art Society of America. ISBN 978-0-295-98786-6. Stephen Mansfield (2009). Tokyo: a Cultural ...
1200: Kaikei sculpts Mahamayuri in Kimpusen-ji, an Important Cultural Property of Japan. 1201: Kaikei sculpts Hachiman in Tōdai-ji, a National Treasure of Japan; 1203: Kaikei with Unkei sculpts Nio in Tōdai-ji, a National Treasure of Japan; 1205: The Legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus – stained glass done for Rouen Cathedral