a look at

Japanese Painting

japanese artworks

Buddhism was a large component in the creation of complex art in the 7th and 8th centuries in Japan.  Religious subject matter was common in ancient Japanese art, but art eventually extended to other subjects that reflected the daily life and environment of the local people.

#1

Reading in a Bamboo Grove (1446) Tenshō Shūbun

#2

Landscape of the Four Seasons (1486) Sesshū Tōyō 

#3

Pine tree and flowering plants (1593) Hasegawa Tōhaku

#4

Painting of a Cypress Tree (1590) Kanō Eitoku

#5

Sekiya and Miotsukushi (1631) Tawaraya Sōtatsu

#6

Red and White Plum Blossoms (1710) Ogata Kōrin

#7

Three Beauties of the Present Day (1793) Kitagawa Utamaro

#8

The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1829) Katsushika Hokusai

#9

Abe-no-Nakamaro Writing a Nostalgic Poem While Viewing the Moon (1918) Tomioka Tessai

#10

Abstract “Superflat” image Takashi Murakami