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  2. The Great Wave off Kanagawa - Wikipedia

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    The Great Wave off Kanagawa (Japanese: 神奈川沖浪裏, Hepburn: Kanagawa-oki Nami Ura, lit. 'Under the Wave off Kanagawa')[a] is a woodblock print by Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai, created in late 1831 during the Edo period of Japanese history. The print depicts three boats moving through a storm-tossed sea, with a large, cresting wave ...

  3. Japanese calligraphy - Wikipedia

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    Japanese calligraphy (書道, shodō), also called shūji (習字), is a form of calligraphy, or artistic writing, of the Japanese language. Written Japanese was originally based on Chinese characters only , but the advent of the hiragana and katakana Japanese syllabaries resulted in intrinsically Japanese calligraphy styles.

  4. Ukiyo-e - Wikipedia

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    Ukiyo-e. Ukiyo-e[a] 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.

  5. Manga - Wikipedia

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    French art has borrowed from Japan since the 19th century [113] and has its own highly developed tradition of bande dessinée cartooning. [114] Manga was introduced to France in the late 1990s, where Japanese pop culture became massively popular: in 2021, 55% of comics sold in the country were manga and France is the biggest manga importer.

  6. Japanese art - Wikipedia

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    Japanese art consists of a wide range of art styles and media that includes ancient pottery, sculpture, ink painting and calligraphy on silk and paper, ukiyo-e paintings and woodblock prints, ceramics, origami, bonsai, and more recently manga and anime. It has a long history, ranging from the beginnings of human habitation in Japan, sometime in ...

  7. Category:Japanese art terminology - Wikipedia

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    Japanese art terminology. This category is for jargon relating to Japanese art (visual arts), especially terms in the original Japanese, which may be used in print in any English-language literature on Japanese art. Many terms are idiosyncratic and may not be accurately represented by a succinct English equivalent notation (rough translation).

  8. Ikebana - Wikipedia

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    Shōka arrangement by the 40th headmaster Ikenobō Senjō, drawing from the Sōka Hyakki by the Shijō school, 1820. Ikebana flower arrangement in a tokonoma (alcove), in front of a kakemono (hanging scroll) Ikebana (生け花, 活け花, 'arranging flowers' or 'making flowers alive') is the Japanese art of flower arrangement. [1][2] It is also ...

  9. Hanakotoba - Wikipedia

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    Hanakotoba. Hanakotoba (花言葉) is the Japanese form of the language of flowers. The language was meant to convey emotion and communicate directly to the recipient or viewer without needing the use of words.