Japanese art
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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
Woodblock print The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai, Edo period
Scene from the Genji Monogatari Emaki, Heian period, early 12th century (National Treasure)
Middle Jōmon vase; circa 3000–2000 BCE
Jar; middle to late Jomon period; 35th–11th century BCE
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
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The Great Wave off Kanagawa is a woodblock print by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai, created in late 1831 during the Edo period of Japanese history. The print depicts three boats moving through a
Japanese art
…Japanese art Woodblock print The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai, Edo period Scene from the Genji Monogatari Emaki, Heian period, early 12th century (National Treasure) Japanese art consists of…
Print at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Plate used to print ukiyo-e
Hokusai, 1839 self-portrait
Detail of the centre of the image. In the background is Mount Fuji in blue with a snow-capped peak.