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Japanese
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Black Ships & Samurai 
 This exhibit features "some 200 Japanese and American graphics depicting the 1853-1854 mission by Commodore Matthew Perry that led to the opening of Japan to the outside world." It also includes related visual narratives and "an innovative recreation of a 30-foot-long Japanese 'Black Ship Scroll' painted in 1854." Developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professors. http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/home/ Topics: Art by Region, Communications, International Governments Last updated Nov 25, 2008 The Etsuko & Joe Price Collection
This site features images of selected items from the collection of "over 500 Japanese art objects, mostly from the Edo period." Browse paintings by artist, subject (such as monkeys, geishas, or landscapes), or historic period. Also include images of artists' seals, example of contemporary netsuke sculpture, and a brief history of the Edo period. From the Shin'enKan Foundation. http://www.shinenkan.com/ Topics: Art by Region, Arts and Humanities Last updated Jun 29, 2004 The Floating World of Ukiyo-e: Shadows, Dreams, and Substance
The Japanese artform Ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating, or sorrowful, world") is featured in this online exhibition of prints, books, and drawings from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries, from the Library of Congress collections. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/ukiyo-e/ Topics: Art by Region Last updated Dec 27, 2002 Handbook for the Appreciation of Japanese Traditional Crafts
This handbook "was written with the aim of promoting a better understanding of Japanese crafts by explaining special and unfamiliar terms in plain language. Typical works are introduced with explanations of the techniques used and the themes they explore." Includes ceramics; textiles, dyeing, and weaving; metalwork; woodwork and bamboowork; dolls; and ivory, kirikane, cloisonne, glass, gemstones, and ink stones. From the Committee of the Japan Crafts Association (Nihon Kogeikai). http://www.artjapan.com/TEBIKI-E/0.html Topics: Art by Region, Crafts, Photograph Collections: Regional Last updated Dec 15, 2008 Japanese Art Dealers Association of New York (JADA)
Features a calendar of Japanese art exhibits at U.S. museums, and lists of books, articles, magazines, and museums focusing on Japanese art. From a "not-for-profit group whose members include leading New York galleries and private dealers." http://www.jada-ny.org/ Topics: Art by Region Last updated Jun 23, 2004 Kunisada and Kabuki
This online exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints is devoted to depictions of Kabuki actors by the artist Kunisada, later known as Toyokuni Utagawa. Woodblock printing was part of the cultural phenomenon, the "floating world" of pleasure ("ukiyo"), developed in Tokyo (then Edo) during Japan's Edo period (1603-1868). From The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England. http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/japan/gallery/KUN/kunisada/Intro/main.htm Topics: Art by Region, Printing, Publishing, and Book Arts Last updated Oct 9, 2004 Kyoto National Museum
The heart of this site is The Collection . In it, Masterworks is a collection of multiple images of more than 100 of its finest works in the categories of Archaeology, Calligraphy, Ceramics, Textiles, Sculpture, Lacquerware, Paintings, and Metalwork. Additionally their online catalog contains over 10,000 images of several thousand objects from its East Asian art collection. Exhibitions and Events , has more images and information about the collection grouped by themes in the Past Exhibitions section; the Museum Dictionary , is a children's guide to this collection of art from Japan, China, and Korea; and Links takes you to museums and art-related sites. Also available in Japanese. http://www.kyohaku.go.jp/ Topics: Art by Region, Arts and Humanities, Crafts, Museums, Museums by Place Last updated Jan 24, 2001 Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958-1968
A collection of fourteen photographs and brief accompanying text, this site "highlights the decade that [Japanese artist] Yayoi Kusama lived and worked in New York City." Online companion of an exhibit of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City. http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/1998/kusama/ Topics: Art by Region, Artists, Notable People: Women, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: Regional: United States Last updated Oct 8, 2009 Picturing Poetry: Four Exhibitions in the Japanese Tradition
This group of exhibits contains images and information on "haiga" (haiku painting), "surimono" (poetry and prints), "inro" (porcelain miniatures) by Armin Muller and Lynn Richardson, and lithographs by Yukinori Yanagi. From the University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. http://www.uam.ucsb.edu/Pages/past_japan Topics: Art by Region, Arts and Humanities, Poetry Last updated Aug 16, 2003 Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art Collections
A collection of a dozen annotated images of Japanese scroll paintings (mostly from the 19th century). Presented by the Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art Collections and the University of California, Merced, Library. http://library.ucmerced.edu/sc/lija/ Topics: Art by Region Last updated Aug 23, 2006 Traditional Crafts of Japan: Bamboo
This essay examining the use of bamboo for craft objects in Japan offers illustrated historical briefs on fishing poles, archery bows, tea whisks, bamboo basketry, and other bamboo crafts in the country. From the Association for the Promotion of Traditional Craft Industries, a group that promotes and displays traditional crafts designated by the Japan Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry. http://www.kougei.or.jp/english/bamboo.html Topics: Art by Region, Crafts, Plants by Name Last updated Feb 14, 2006 Universes in Collision: Men and Women in Nineteenth Century Japanese Prints
Images and annotations of nineteenth century Japanese prints by Utagawa Kunisada, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, and Katsukawa Shunsen, exploring "the relationship between men and women." Online companion to 1997 exhibit from the Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia. http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/artsandmedia/artmuseum/ Topics: Art by Region Last updated Mar 27, 2009 |
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