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
Manga
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Manga are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The term
Japanese art
…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 the 10th millennium BCE, to the present day…
A page from the manga Go Go! Encyclopedia Girls by artist Kasuga, depicting Wikipe-tan, Commons-tan and Quote-tan
A kamishibai storyteller from Sazae-san by Machiko Hasegawa. Sazae appears with her hair in a bun.
Hokusai Manga depicting self-defense techniques (early 19th century)
Delegates of 3rd Asian Cartoon Exhibition, held at Tokyo (Annual Manga Exhibition) by The Japan Foundation