Kamisaka, Sekka

Meiji period (1868-1912), 1909-1910

Kamisaka, Sekka

Meiji period (1868-1912), 1909-1910

Matsumura, Keibun

Edo period (1650-1868), 1830

The Japanese folding screen is one of the finest of the varied art forms of Japan. Used as a wind break, both indoors and out, as a privacy screen, and as pure decoration, the folding screen in Japan ...

Momoyama period (1573-1615), About 1600

Kaoru (adopted son of Prince Genji) arrives in Uji to observe the anniversary of Prince Genji's death. He goes boating on the river in a boat "Roofed with scarlet leaves. The boat was like a gorgeous brocade, ...

Momoyama period (1573-1615), About 1600

The day of the initiation ceremony for the Akashi lady's daughter approaches. Prince Genji (in blue), now thirty-nine years old, devotes himself to every detail. As he and his brother, Prince Hotaru (in ...

Momoyama period (1573-1615), About 1600

Prince Genji (in white) spies on the women in a neighboring villa as he receives treatment for a fever from a sage in the northern hills. In this charming, rustic setting he finds a young girl with two ...

Sen no Rikyu

Muromachi period (1392-1573), About 1570

Sen no Rikyu was the founder of the Japanese tea ceremony. The rules and practices he established were considered so perfect that they are still followed. The school of tea he established still flourishes ...

Jomon period (about 10,000 - 300 BC), Kasori E-2 type, About 3000 BC

Jomon means "rope pattern" and refers to the pattern found on the lower portion of pots such as this. Twisted rice straw was rolled across the damp clay creating this characteristic pattern. This is still ...

Heian period (794-1185), About 1100

Jizo Bosatsu always appears as a kindly Buddhist monk. Shrines to him are in every Japanese neighborhood where local groups dress him and make offerings of flowers and food. This image was never painted ...

Muromachi period (1392-1573), About 1450

The hot-water ewer, supported by three cloud-collar feet, is covered by red lacquer with an undercoating of black lacquer. Both the body and the neck are decorated with raised bands. The piece displays ...

Muromachi period (1392-1573), About 1475

A hanging scroll depicting a deer standing with a mirror on the saddle on its back. The mirror holds the images of five Buddhist deities. In the background is the Kasuga shrine in Nara. The deer is the ...