Chinese Art

Japanese ArtImages you must learn.

In order of importance……

The Great Wave Hokusai Edo period, c.1831polychrome woodblock print on paper

Travelers among Mountains and StreamsFan Kuan Northern Song Dynasty, early 11th century CEhanging scroll, ink and colors on silk

How does this image exemplify the Confucian beliefs?How does this image exemplify Daoist beliefs?How does this image exemplify Buddhist beliefs?

Kuya PreachingKosho Kamakura periodbefore 1207 painted woodCan you connect this statue to religious beliefs?

Monk SewingNinga Kamakura period, early 14th centuryink on paper

Can you connect this image to religious beliefs?

Terracotta Soldiers, from the mausoleum of the Emperor Qin dynasty, c. 210 BCE

Can you connect these terracotta soldiers to religious beliefs?

What are these soldiers missing?

Terracotta Soldiers, from the mausoleum of the Emperor Qin dynasty, c. 210 BCE

Zhao Mengfusection of Autumn Colors on the Qiao and Hua Mountains

Yuan dynasty, 1296handscroll, ink and color on paper

The Yuan dynasty refers to what conquest?Mengfu in this handscroll imitated who? Why?(A related question--Why then is this image

considered a good example of literati painting?)

Poet on a MountaintopShen ZhouMing dynasty, c.1500 leaf from an albumWho was Zhou imitating?Why does Stokstad claims that this work represents the essence of literati painting?

The Forbidden City

Ming Dynasty

Nanchan Temple Tang Dynasty 782 CEBuddhist

Byodo-in, Uji Kyoto PrefectureHeian period, c. 1053 CEtemple of Pure Land Buddhism

                                                                                              

Landscape Bunsei Muromachi period, mid-15th centuryhanging scroll, ink and light colors on paper

Why (or how) can we read this landscape as “Zen-influenced?”