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Traditional crafts (工芸, kōgei, lit. ' engineered art ') in Japan have a long tradition and history. Included in the category of traditional crafts are handicrafts produced by an individual or a group, as well as work produced by independent studio artists working with traditional craft materials and/or processes.
Art history: Eastern art history: Japanese art history: General Japanese Art Main Page Categories Architecture - Calligraphy Lacquer - Painting - Pottery Prints - Sculpture - Swords. Historical Periods Jōmon and Yayoi periods Yamato period Heian period Kamakura period Muromachi period Azuchi–Momoyama period Edo period Prewar period Postwar ...
Trubner, Henry (1972), "Japanese Ceramics: A Brief History", Ceramic Art of Japan, Seattle, USA: Seattle Art Museum, LCCN 74-189738 Tsuneko S. Sadao and Stephanie Wada, Discovering the Arts of Japan: A Historical Overview , Tokyo-New York-London, KODANSYA INTERNATIONAL, 2003, ISBN 4-7700-2939-X
The Traditional Crafts of Japan (伝統的工芸品, dentōteki kōgeihin) is a series of Japanese crafts specially recognized and designated as such by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry (formerly, the Minister of International Trade and Industry) in accordance with the 1974 Act on the Promotion of Traditional Craft Industries [].
By Kiyoshi Takenaka. WAJIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Kohei Kirimoto, an 8th-generation lacquerware artisan, walked through the ruins of his century-old workshop in the Japanese coastal town of Wajima on ...
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".
Thrown, combed tea bowl by Shōji Hamada. The concept of mingei (民芸), variously translated into English as "folk craft", "folk art" or "popular art", was developed from the mid-1920s in Japan by a philosopher and aesthete, Yanagi Sōetsu (1889–1961), together with a group of craftsmen, including the potters Hamada Shōji (1894–1978) and Kawai Kanjirō (1890–1966).
Japonisme [a] is a French term that refers to the popularity and influence of Japanese art and design among a number of Western European artists in the nineteenth century following the forced reopening of foreign trade with Japan in 1858. [1] [2] Japonisme was first described by French art critic and collector Philippe Burty in 1872. [3]