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The Yuri Coast Seawall (由利海岸波除石垣, Yuri kaigan namiyoke ishigaki) is an Edo period (1600-1868) seawall against high waves, salt spray, and strong winds on the Sea of Japan coast in what is now part of the city of Nikaho, Akita. [1] Its remains were designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1997. [2]
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.
Waves at Matsushima, also named Pine Islands, is a pair of Japanese landscape paintings on two six-fold screens, made by artist Tawaraya Sōtatsu in the 1620s. They were painted with ink, color, gold, and silver on paper.
Rough Waves (Japanese: 波濤 図 屏風) is a painting by the Japanese artist Ogata Kōrin, on a two-panel byōbu (folding screen). The work was created c. 1704 – c. 1709, and depicts a swirl of stormy sea waves.
By the mid-Nara period (ca. 750) Japanese paintings showed influences of the Chinese Tang dynasty (618–907) and in the 9th century early Heian period evolved into the Kara-e genre. Wall murals in the Takamatsuzuka Tomb, the Kitora Tomb and the Portrait of Kichijōten at Yakushi-ji exemplify the Kara-e style. Generally, Nara period paintings ...
The Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai created colour prints of the moods of the sea, including The Great Wave off Kanagawa. The sea has appeared in literature since Homer's Odyssey (8th century BC). The sea is a recurring theme in the Haiku poems of the Japanese Edo period poet Matsuo Bashō (松尾 芭蕉) (1644–1694).