An Art Tour Through Feudal Japan

Feudal Japan Haniwa Warrior(6th C.) ~Samurai Armor

The Japanese samurai sword’s. art of weapon brought from China and Korea. Perfected by the meticulous and idiosyncratic. Japanese people. The swordsmith was clean and reverent, greatest respect for every detail. His rituals included praying, wearing white, and performing misogi purification. The processs required compete forcus and concentration.

The middle of the Heian period Koto “old sword” period The swords that emerged from the latter part of this era are of the finest made to date.

Wookcut print of Samurai on horseback fording a river. By Tyokuni Japan 1795

A popular print depicting Hideyoshi Toyotomi, a Japanese feudal lord and samurai (Japanese Warrior), Under the rule of Hideyoshi (Image © The Art Archive)

Hokusai, Japan’s best known artist

Taishokuhan (The Great Woven Cap) Japan, late 17th-early 18th century Edo Period Pair of six-fold screens: ink, color and gold on paper.

Shinto “The Sacred Art of Ancient Japan”

A visage after death mask.

The lines on this pot are dense, varied & non-linear. It is said to have been used for cooking.

This is a large vessel that was intended to hold a person’s dried ones, some innards, and a few personal effects. It’s sliced open around the middle - to put stuff in or take stuff out?

Kanshitsu box with tsuikin (colored lacquer cutout applique). “Inside an Ancient Tomb.”

Tea ceremony jar for supply of fresh water made of silver and shudo

Large dish with shrimp design

Ancient Japanese art of intricately detailed miniature sculpture

Kneeling Boy ~ a Pottery Haniwa doll figure

“Shadow of island”. Made of carved clay with ink.

The ancient art and philosophy behind Japanese stone gardens.

Japan Architecture For centuries in Japan, skilled artisans constructed castles, temples and other national monuments using mortises, tongue and groove joinery, and wooden dowels and wedges. These magnificent structures, based on precise carpentry cuts rather than nails and other hardware, are still standing today because of their excellent engineering and use of innovative tools such as the pull saw.

Nijo Castle, the headquarters of the Tokaguwa Bakufu. Koyoto, 17th C.

Main Gate of Hiroshima Castle

Hiroshima Castle

Nagoya Castle

Nijyo Castle

Kochi Castle

Palace

Kiyomizudera Temple

Sanjyusangendo Temple

Silver Pavilion Temple

Buddhist Temple bell in Hokoji Temple

Yogenin Temple

Hokoku Shrine

Wakeno Kiyomaro ~ Sago Takamori

Sakamoto Ryoma & Nakaoka Shintaro

Takasugi Shinsaku

Sanada Yukimura

Sakamoto Ryoma

Kikuchi Takemitsu

Kusunoki Masashige

Sago Takamori

Grave of Tairano Masakado

Grave of Hattori Hanzo (Master Ninja)

Grave of Oda Nobunaga

Grave of Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Graveyard of Taira Family