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Itō Jakuchū (伊藤 若冲, 2 March 1716 – 27 October 1800) [1] was a Japanese painter of the mid-Edo period when Japan had isolated itself from the outside world. Many of his paintings concern traditionally Japanese subjects, particularly chickens and other birds.
In the latter tradition, Mahamayuri is a popular practice in both the Chinese and Japanese forms of Vajrayana. She is also the name of one of the five protective goddesses in Buddhism. [1] [2] [3] In Chinese Buddhism and Shingon Buddhism, it is believed that the Great Peacock King is an incarnation of either Vairocana Buddha or Shakyamuni ...
There are 18 Japanese book National Treasures that do not belong to any of the above categories. They cover 14 works of various types, including biographies, law or rulebooks, temple records, music scores, a medical book and dictionaries. [4] Two of the oldest works designated are biographies of the Asuka period regent Shōtoku Taishi.
The Meiji era was a time when Japan absorbed some Western cultural influences and used international events to promote its art, which became very influential in Europe. Rather than covering the whole range of Meiji-era decorative art, Khalili has focused on objects of the highest technical and artistic quality.
[1] In 1954, his first monograph, Atarashii Origami Geijutsu (New Origami Art) was published. In this work, he established the Yoshizawa–Randlett system of notation for origami folds (a system of symbols, arrows and diagrams [3]), which has become the standard for most paperfolders. The publishing of this book helped Yoshizawa out of his poverty.
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History of Japanese Art . Prentice Hall (2005). ISBN 0-13-117602-1; Miyoshi, Masao. Postmodernism and Japan. Duke University Press (1986) ISBN 0-8223-0896-7; Sadao, Tsuneko. Discovering the Arts of Japan: A Historical Overview. Kodansha International (2003). ISBN 4-7700-2939-X; Schaarschmidt Richte. Japanese Modern Art Painting From 1910 ...