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This is a list of Japanese artists. This list is intended to encompass Japanese who are primarily fine artists. This list is intended to encompass Japanese who are primarily fine artists. For information on those who work primarily in film, television, advertising, manga, anime, video games, or performance arts, please see the relevant ...
Name: the name as registered in the Database of National Cultural Properties [5] Author: the name of the artist and—if applicable—name of the person who added an inscription; Remarks: detailed location, provenance, general remarks; Date: period and year; The column entries sort by year. If only a period is known, they sort by the start year ...
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.
Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎, c. 31 October 1760 – 10 May 1849), known mononymously as Hokusai, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. [1] His woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji includes the iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa .
Plate used to print ukiyo-e. Ukiyo-e is a Japanese printmaking technique which flourished in the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of subjects including female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; Japanese flora and fauna; and erotica.
Hiroshige II was a young print artist, Chinpei Suzuki, who married Hiroshige's daughter, Otatsu. He was given the artist name of "Shigenobu". Hiroshige intended to make Shigenobu his heir in all matters, and Shigenobu adopted the name "Hiroshige" after his master's death in 1858, and thus today is known as Hiroshige II.
Japan Tokyo: National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo [1] Japan Tokyo Suntory Museum of Art [1] Japan Tokyo Tokyo National Museum: Art, archaeology and history [1] Japan Tokyo Yamatane Museum: 1,800 Japan Osaka National Museum of Art, Osaka: 8,200 (As of February 2022) Modern art [3] Japan Tokyo Sumida Hokusai Museum
Name: name as registered in the List of National Treasures Archived 2009-03-30 at the Wayback Machine; Remarks: placement of statues (as a group, separately,...) and artist (if known) Date: period and year; The column entries sort by year. If only a period is known, they sort by the start year of that period.