ART HISTORY RESOURCES ON THE WEB: Japanese Art

Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe
Professor of Art History
Sweet Briar College, Virginia
Online since 24 October 1995

Japanese Art
Last updated February 2010

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BOOKS by Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe

Copyright in the Renaissance: Prints and the Privilegio in Sixteenth-Century Venice and Rome
(Leiden: Brill, 2004)
414 pages, 37 illustrations

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Print Publishing in Sixteenth-Century Rome: Growth and Expansion, Rivalry and Murder
(London/Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2008)
469 pages, 320 illustrations

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ASIAN ART: General
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Asian Collections, in The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
The East Asian Collections in The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, plus a link to an Image Gallery
The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, with a link to the Collection
Xiongnu (Hsiungnu, Huns of Asia)
The John C. and Susan L. Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art, A Photographic Research and Teaching Archive (Ohio State University)
Buddhist art (through ArtLex)
Asian Art in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Asian Art in the Ethnological Missionary Museum in the Vatican (through The Holy See, The Vatican)
Asian Art in the collection of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
Asian Art in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Asian Art in The Trammell and Margaret Crow Collection, Dallas, Texas
Far Eastern Art in the collection of the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
Ancient Central Asia (through Images from History), with links to:
Oriental Art in the The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, with links to:
Chinese and Japanese Art in the Topper Gallery
The Coins and History of Asia (T. K. Mallon-McCorgray)

JAPANESE ART
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Japanese Art (through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History)
- Art of the Pleasure Quarters and the Ukiyo-e Style
- Woodblock Prints in the Ukiyo-e Style
- Asuka and Nara Periods (538 – 794 A.D.)
- Buddhism and Buddhist Art
- Jomon Culture (ca. 10,500 - ca. 300 B.C.)
- Yayoi Culture (ca. 4th century B.C.–3rd century A.D.)
- Heian Period (794–1185 A.D.)
- Kofun Period (ca. 3rd century–538 A.D.)
- Kamakura and Nanbokucho Periods (1185 - 1392 A.D.)
- Muromachi Period (1392–1573 A.D.)
- Momoyama Period (1573–1615 A.D.)
- The Kano School of Painting
- The Japanese Blade: Technology and Manufacture
- Japanese Incense
- Japanese Weddings in the Edo Period (1615–1868)
- Lacquerware of East Asia
- List of Rulers: Japan
- Miyake, Kawakubo, and Yamamoto: Japanese Fashion in the Twentieth Century
- Noh Costume
- Rinpa Painting Style
- Samurai
- Seasonal Imagery in Japanese Art
- Shinto
- Shoguns and Art
- Yamato-e Painting
Architecture in Japan (through Asian Historical Architecture)
- Himeji
  - Himeji Castle
- Kamakura
- Kobe
- Kyoto
- Nara
- Nikko
- Shiragawa
- Takayama
- Tokyo
Japanese Architecture in Kyoto (through The Leo Masuda Architectonic Research Office)
Japan (through the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation's World Art Treasures)
Early Japanese Visual Arts (Richard Hooker)
Japanese art (through ArtLex)
Japan in the The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Japanese Art Collection (at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri)
Japanese Art and Architecture (through the Web Museum: UNC mirror), with links to:
- Japanese Prehistory
- Asuka and Nara Art
- Heian Art
- Kamakura Art
- Muromachi Art
- Momoyama Art
- Art of the Edo Period, with additional links to:
  - Ando Hiroshige (1797-1858)
  - Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
- Art since 1867
Japanese Art (through Asia-art.net), with links to
- Japanese Art
- Japanese Woodblock print
- Japanese Textiles
- Japanese Ceramics
- Japanese Art of Tea Ceremony
The Khalili Collection of Japanese Art
Japanese Architecture in Kyoto (through the Leo Masuda Architectonic Research Office)
The Japanese Garden (Clifton Olds, Professor of Art History, Bowdoin College)
- Gardens
- Elements
- Origins: Early Japanese Gardens: The Asuka, Nara, and Heian Periods
- Glossary
- Bibliography
Japanese Gardens
Ukiyoe from the Sweet Briar Collection:
- Eisen, Keisai
- Sadahide
- Eizan, Kikugawa
- Shuncho, Katsukawa
- Harunobu, Suzuki
- Shunko, Katsukawa
- Harutake, Utagawa
- Shunsho, Katsukawa
- Hiroshige, Utagawa
- Toyokuni, Utagawa
- Hiroshige II (Shigenobu)
- Toyokuni II (Kunisada)
- Hokusai, Katsushika
- Toyonobu, Ishikawa
- Kiyonaga, Torii
- Utamaro, Kitagawa
- Kunisada, Utagawa
- Yoshimasu, Kochoen
- Kuniyoshi, Utagawa
- Yoshitora, Utagawa
Ukiyoe in the Sweet Briar Collection: Representations of Women (Julia Paris and Professor John Goulde)
Ukiyo-e Artist Signatures (through Artelino)
Japanese prints in the collection of the Davison Art Center (Wesleyan University)
Masterful Illusions: Japanese Prints from the Anne van Biema Collection (online exhibition at the The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC)
Handbook of Japanese Printmaking Technique
A Guide to the Ukiyo-e Sites of the Internet (Hans Olof Johansson), with a link to the Edo no Iki Gallery
- Artists
  - Chikanobu (1838-1912)
  - Eisen (1790-1848)
  - Hirosada (act 1820s-1860s)
  - Hiroshige (1797-1858)
  - Hiroshige II (1826-1869)
  - Hokkei (1780-1850)
  - Hokusai (1760-1849)
  - Koson (1877-1945)
  - Kunichika (1835-1900)
  - Kunimaru (1794-1829)
  - Kunisada (1786-1864)
  - Kunisada II (1823-1880)
  - Kuniyasu (1794-1832)
  - Kuniyoshi (1797-1861)
  - Sadafusa (act ca 1825-1850)
  - Shinsai (1764?-1820)
  - Shumpûsha (act late 1850s)
  - Toyokuni (1769-1825)
  - Yoshitaki (1841-1899)
  - Yoshitora (act 1840s-1880)
  - Yoshitoshi (1839-1892)
  - Yoshitsuya (1822-1866)
- Categories
- Popular serial themes
The Japan Ukiyo-e Museum
A Gallery Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Calligraphy by Doshu Kanayama (online exhibition through The John C. and Susan L. Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art)
Traditional Arts and Crafts in Kanazawa (through Life in Castle-town Kanazawa), with links to:
- Ohi Pottery
- Kaga Inlay
- Tea Ceremony Kettle
- Bronze Gong
- Kanazawa Interior Decoration
- Kaga Fly Rod
- Kaga Artificial Fly
- Local Toy
- Kaga Paper Lantern
- Kanazawa Paper Umbrella
- Kaga Lion Head
- Kaga Mizuhiki
- Paulownla Woodwork
- Tenatsu Papier-Marche
The Kenzan Style of Japanese Ceramics (online exhibition at the The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC)
- The Kenzan Mode
- The Korin Mode
- Utsushi: Copies with a Difference
- The Scholar-Recluse
- The Raku mode
- Native Poetics
Iida Mizuhiki Association, with a link to a gallery of Mizuhiki cording art
Japanese Art and Western Influence (Nico Veenman), with links to:
- Silk Wall Tapestry
- Japanese watercolours - 1
- Japanese watercolours - 2
- Japanese decorative art
- Nagasaki Writing Desk
- Nagasaki laquer boxes
- Portrait painting
- Cloisonne on porcelain
- Export Writing Table
- Painting on Velvet
- Series of Four Paintings on Velvet
- Seto Vase
The Noh Mask Effect: A Facial Expression Illusion (Michael J. Lyons)

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