Product Description: Presented here are some of the world’s finest examples of Japanese art and design, from the Samurai and Edo periods up to high-tech contemporary design. The V&A has acquired Japanese objects since its earliest years and played a significant role in bringing the art of Japan to the attention of designers, manufacturers, and the public...read more

Product Description: This is the first complete study and reappraisal of the remarkable collection of Japanese art at the Cincinnati Art Museum. It features a wealth of artifacts, including paintings and ceramics, metal objects and weaponry, screens, masks, cloisonné enamel, lacquer ware, ivory carvings, kimonos, and dolls, the majority dating from the Edo period (1615–1868) to the end of the Meiji Period in 1912...read more

Product Description: Language:Chinese.HardCover Pub Date: 2012 Pages: 144 in Publisher: Yale University Press As the oldest and largest museum in Japan. the Tokyo National Museum houses a vast collection of culturally important. Artworks Elegant Perfection highlights twenty-six masterpieces from the this esteemed collection ...read more

Product Description: Demonstrates how Chinese literary traditions have echoed throughout Japan and Korea for more than 1,000 years.Collection includes landscape paintings, figure paintings, ceramics, lacquer ware and calligraphic scrolls.Chinese classical poems are an international culture code in East Asia...read more

Product Description: Imported to Japan from China during the 9th century, the custom of serving tea did not become widespread until the 13th century. By the late 15th and 16th centuries, tea was ceremonially prepared by a skilled tea master and served to guests in a tranquil setting...read more

Product Description: The arts of Japan have been inextricably linked with nature, whether through traditional themes of seasonal change or through objects whose shape, materials, or decorative elements evoke natural motifs. This book provides an overview of the history of Japanese paintings of nature, demonstrating not only the importance of seasonal imagery but also the range of painting styles popular during the period from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries...read more

Product Description: Monet never traveled to Japan, but he surrounded himself with a large collection of Japanese woodblock prints. Like a number of other Parisians, he first collected Japanese prints in the 1860s. He shared the European view of Japanese culture as supremely artistic, shaped by the refined aesthetic tastes of its people, in harmony with its legendary beauty...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is privileged to present toe Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese art, which represents highlights of Mrs. Burke's involvement with and collecting to the filed of Japanese art over the 37-year period since 1963. Throughout the years, the Burkes donated funds for purchases, frequently lent works to be shown in the Japanese galleries, funded research on Japanese art in the Museum's collection, and contributed to the department's activities in more personal ways. (view table of contents)

Product Description: 16 pg. full color gallery brochure to the show: Jewel Rivers: Japanese Art from the Burke Collection.

Discusses Japanese pottery and its role in Japanese culture

Product Description: A detailed and careful chronology of fine art in Japan, published by the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Product Description: Book by Powers, Kimiko and John