Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History

Korea Korea is a northeast Asian peninsula that shares borders with China and Russia and faces the islands of Japan (MAP7-1). Ko ...

However, at Sokkuram, near the summit of Mount Toham, northeast of the city, a splendid granite Buddhist monument is pre- served ...

Koryo Dynasty Although Buddhism was the established religion of Korea, Confu- cianism, introduced from China during the Silla er ...

SHANG DYNASTY, ca. 1600–1050 BCE ❚The Shang dynasty was the first great Chinese dynasty of the Bronze Age. The Shang kings ruled ...

8-1Detail of Yakushi, Yakushi triad (FIG. 8-8), kondo, Yakushiji, Nara Prefecture, Japan, Nara period, late seventh or early eig ...

T he Japanese archipelago (MAP8-1) consists of four main islands—Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu—and hundreds of smaller o ...

development of agriculture. In fact, ar- chaeologists have dated some ceramic sherds (pottery fragments) found in Japan to befor ...

*From this point on, all dates in this chapter are CEunless otherwise stated. DOTAKUAmong the most intrigu- ing objects Yayoi ar ...

HANIWAThe Japanese also placed unglazed ceramic sculptures called haniwa on and around the Kofun tumuli. These sculptures, usual ...

Buddhist Japan 211 T he early beliefs and practices of pre-Buddhist Japan, which form a part of the belief system later called S ...

series of reforms led to the establishment of a centralized govern- ment in place of the individual clans that controlled the di ...

8-8Yakushi triad, kondo, Yakushiji, Nara Prefecture, Japan, Nara period, late seventh or early eighth century. Bronze, central f ...

designs from paper to wall by piercing holes in the paper and push- ing colored powder through the perforations (pouncing). As w ...

Heian Period In 784, possibly to escape the power of the Buddhist priests in Nara, the imperial house moved its capital north, e ...

important surviving monument in Japan related to Pure Land beliefs is the so-called Phoenix Hall (FIG. 8-13) of the Byodoin. Fuj ...

diagonal lines suggest three-dimensional space. The painter omitted roofs and ceilings to allow a privileged view of the interio ...

individuals. Unlike the Genji scrolls, short segments of text and pic- tures do not alternate. Instead, the painters took advant ...

Buddhist Japan 219 U ntil the late Heian period, major artistic commissions came almost exclusively from the imperial court or t ...

ATTACK ON SANJO PALACE All the painting types flour- ishing in the Heian period continued to prosper in the Kamakura period. A s ...

JOMON AND YAYOI PERIODS, ca. 10,500 BCE–300 CE ❚The Jomon (ca. 10,500–300 BCE) is Japan’s earliest distinct culture. It takes it ...