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  2. The Great Wave off Kanagawa - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Wikimapia - Wikipedia

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    The Wikimapia layer is a collection of "objects" with a polygonal outline (like buildings, forests, or lakes) and "linear features" (streets, railroads, rivers, ferry). Streets are connected by intersection points to form a street grid. Both kinds of items may have textual descriptions and photos attached to them.

  4. Namikawa Yasuyuki - Wikipedia

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    Namikawa Yasuyuki (1845–1927) — original family name Takaoka [1] — was a Japanese cloisonné artist. His work was highly sought after in his own lifetime and is held in several collections today. [2] He and Namikawa Sōsuke (no relation) [notes 1] were the most famous cloisonné artists of the 1890 to 1910 period, known as the "Golden age ...

  5. Kawanabe Kyōsai - Wikipedia

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    Known for. Painting, drawing, portraits. Movement. Ukiyo-e, Japanese Zen, Nihonga. Family. Kawanabe Kyōsui (daughter) Kawanabe Kyōsai [1] (河鍋 暁斎, May 18, 1831 – April 26, 1889) was a Japanese painter and caricaturist. In the words of art historian Timothy Clarke, "an individualist and an independent, perhaps the last virtuoso in ...

  6. Japonisme - Wikipedia

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    Japonisme. Young Ladies Looking at Japanese Objects by the painter James Tissot in 1869 is a representation of the popular curiosity about all Japanese items that started with the opening of the country in the Meiji Restoration of the 1860s. Japonisme [a] is a French term that refers to the popularity and influence of Japanese art and design ...

  7. Japanese art - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art - Wikipedia

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    The Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art is a museum on the crest of Mount Carmel, in Haifa, Israel, dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of Japanese art. It is the only such museum in the Middle East. It was established in 1959 on the initiative of Felix Tikotin of the Netherlands, and Abba Hushi, who was the mayor of Haifa.

  9. Japanese painting - Wikipedia

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    Japanese painting (絵画, kaiga; also gadō 画道) is one of the oldest and most highly refined of the Japanese visual arts, encompassing a wide variety of genres and styles. As with the history of Japanese arts in general, the long history of Japanese painting exhibits synthesis and competition between native Japanese aesthetics and the ...

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