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Beginning in the mid-6th century, as Buddhism was brought to Japan from Baekje, religious art was introduced from the mainland. The earliest religious paintings in Japan were copied using mainland styles and techniques, and are similar to the art of the Chinese Sui dynasty (581–618) or the late Sixteen Kingdoms around the early 5th century ...
The gallery is one of the earliest museum buildings in Japan and itself an Important Cultural Property. On display in the gallery are eighty large paintings, forty in "Japanese style" and forty in "Western style" , that depict, in chronological order, scenes from the Emperor's life and times. The gallery opened to the public in 1926, with the ...
In September 2014, the museum completed renovations on a new permanent collections hall, the Heisei Chishinkan Wing (The Collections Galleries), designed by Yoshio Taniguchi, known for his redesign of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and his design of the Gallery of Hōryū-ji Treasures at the Tokyo National Museum.
(kept at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo) materials and techniques of western oil painting applied to the Japanese subject of a white-robed Kannon, holding a willow branch in one hand and a water jar in the other [5] 272.0 centimetres (107.1 in) by 181.0 centimetres (71.3 in)
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 ...
The Sompo Museum of Art (SOMPO美術館, Sonpo bijutsukan) is an art museum in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. It is owned by the Japanese insurance company SOMPO and is located next to the company's headquarters. It started as the Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art in 1976 and gradually expanded. The current six-storey building ...
Images of Kami, colour on wooden boards 板絵著色神像 ita-e chakushoku Shinzō zō: 1286: Ōyamazaki: Hōshaku-ji : four panels: Honden Door Paintings, colour on wooden boards 本殿扉絵（板絵著色）
List of Cultural Properties of Japan – paintings (Tottori) List of Cultural Properties of Japan – paintings (Toyama) List of Cultural Properties of Japan – paintings (Yamagata) List of Cultural Properties of Japan – paintings (Yamaguchi) List of Cultural Properties of Japan – paintings (Yamanashi) Cypress screen attributed to Kanō Eitoku