The development of Japanese art is closely linked to a traditional aesthetic. Unusual for the European art lover is the link with everyday use. Artistic garden design, painted silk and bowls for ceremonial tea preparation have an artistic value if they show reference to Japanese tradition and have an application in everyday use. The higher the everyday use and signs of everyday patina, the higher the artistic appreciation. The development of Japanese art is subject to the accusation of having submitted to the influence of foreign cultures for centuries. Japan resembles a sponge that has absorbed incoming cultures and has rarely been in the position of an idea generator. A close examination reveals only a selective adoption of foreign artistic trends. Few of the achievements of foreign cultures stood high enough in the esteem of artists to be integrated into Japanese art. As the 19th century progressed, the position changed and Japanese artists developed into sources of inspiration for European painters. In particular, the Japanese form of woodblock printing was very popular among the French Impressionists and influenced the works of Vincent van Gogh, Edgar Degas and Claude Monet.Utagawa Hiroshige was an artist who used the printing technique of the ukiyo-e style and is considered a typical representative of the Edo period.
Another principle of aesthetics in Japanese art is the simple things that nature gives as a model. Simplicity in the sense of a reduced representation of simple grace and beauty. The arrangement of the components of a painting creates the impression of the greatest possible simplicity. Restraint in composition is considered a basic condition of good taste in all epochs. This aesthetic principle originated in Zen Buddhism and is known as Wabi Sabi or Iki. The sense of beauty does not follow the European standard, which often demands balance and symmetry. Irregularities and asymmetries derived from nature are equally important elements of aesthetic expression.
A special form of in Japanese art is the depiction of erotic motifs. Shunga are woodblock prints depicting the sexual act. The open presentation of people in intimate situations was a major source of income for the artists of ukiyo-e style woodblock prints. Ukiyo-e means images of the fluid world, and this world revolved around the hedonistic amusement districts of urban regions. Eroticism is a part of the world that was composed of Kabuki theatres, tea houses and brothels. Actors, geishas and courtesans formed an illustrious society devoted to pleasure, and the Japanese artists of the 17th and 18th centuries carried this world to the outside world in paintings. Many European artists reacted with admiration to the depictions and the technique of printing. By applying watercolor and printing by the power of the hands, an expression of lightness reminiscent of a watercolor is created.
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 (ink on paper) - (MeisterDrucke-90349).jpg "Monkeys Reaching for the Moon, Edo Period (1603-1867) by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Portrait of a female warrior with flowers in her hair, c.1895 by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Two Cranes Diving Behind Pine and Rockwood by Japanese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-673992).jpg "Views In and Around Kyoto, Edo Period by Japanese School")
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_War_(1180-1185)_a_samurai_armed_with_a_bow_and_m_-_(MeisterDrucke-1041951).jpg "Episode of the Genpei War (1180-1185): A Samurai Armed with a Bow and Mounted on a Horse Crosses a River at a Ford. Japanese Art of the Tosa School by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Asa-no-Kasumi, no.43, 1898 by Japanese School")
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.jpg "A Courtesan Offering a Cup, 18th-19th Century by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Vines, hut, grasses and shore birds, Momoyama period by Japanese School")
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.jpg "No Theatre Mask by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Nanban Six-Fold Screen Depicting the Arrival of a Portuguese Ship for Trade, Edo Period by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Senjo-To, no.5, 1898 by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Shogun of the Tokugawa Family with the 16 Noble Samurai by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Japanese weaving loom, late 19th century print by Japanese School")
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 (see 216542 216544 216545) - (MeisterDrucke-113221).jpg "Birds with Autumn and Winter Flowers by Japanese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1545617).jpg "Minamoto no Yoritomo by Japanese School")
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 (see 216542 216543 216545) - (MeisterDrucke-57785).jpg "Birds with Autumn and Winter Flowers by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Warrior Munete. Silk painting of the School Tosa, author Chikana Morizumi dit Hsien. 18th century. Museo Chiossone. Genoa by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Shinozuka Shigehiro, Governor of Iga Province, 1720s by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Woodblock Print of Ibis and Bats by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Kakemono, Early 19th Century by Japanese School")
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_Art_Tokugawa_Architecture_Japan_Kyoto_(p_-_(MeisterDrucke-1028334).jpg "Interior of the Nijo Castle. Tokugawa Art. Architecture. Japan, Kyoto by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Section of a Map of Roads in Japan by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Two men walking by a lake, c. 1870 by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Sake bottle, Edo period, late 17th-early 18th century by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Asashio Toro, a Japanese Sumo Wrestler, c.1890 by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Japanese soldiers on horseback riding through a pine forest during the Mongolian invasion of Japan in 1274, illustration from Kokka magazine, May 1921 by Japanese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-935088).jpg "Katana, or Sword by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Jar with a design of reeds, Momoyama period, late 16th-early 17th century by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Part of the Sixth Korean Embassy to Japan at the time of Tokugawa Ietsuna")
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.jpg "Tea bowl in the shape of a Chinese flute, Edo period by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Gourd-shaped sake bottle, Edo period by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Samurai Warriors Armour by Japanese School")
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_Returning_to_his_Palace_in_Tokyo_late_19th_cen_-_(MeisterDrucke-421479).jpg "The Emperor Mutsuhito (1852-1912) Returning to His Palace in Tokyo, Late 19th Century by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Portuguese Screen Representing the Arrival of Portuguese Jesuit Missionaries in Japan in the 16th Century by Japanese School")
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_protectors_of_farmers_and_god_-_(MeisterDrucke-985538).jpg "Japanese god Daikoku (Daikokuten), protector of farmers and god of agriculture by Japanese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1350748).jpg "A tortoise, from Yoshida Seisai by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Section of a Map of Roads in Japan by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Art Japan: calligraphy and Japanese script hiragana by Japanese School")
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_Fukuoka_or_Kumamoto_prefecture_Edo_period_-_(MeisterDrucke-436333).jpg "Tea bowl named Ochiba (Fallen Leaves), Edo period, early 17th century by Japanese School")
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_(lacquer)_-_(MeisterDrucke-586360).jpg "Inro carrying case, Edo Period by Japanese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-416320).jpg "Figure of a Guardian Deity, Kamakura period, 12th-14th century by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Commercial bottle for medicinal wine, Meiji era, late 19th century by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Portrait of Jifei Ruyi by Japanese School")
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_founder_of_the_dynasty_of_the_same_name_-_(MeisterDrucke-1115194).jpg "Portrait of Tokugawa Ieyasu, Founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Wall Hanging Embroidered with a Writhing Gilt Dragon Among Clouds by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Section of a map of roads in Japan.")
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.jpg "Ladle stand, tapering cylindrical with wavy trefoil foot, Kyoto, Edo period by Japanese School")
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![Section of a map of roads in Japan. Dai Nihon koku junro meiki daisei. ["A clear and minute map of the high roads of Japan"] 1850 by Japanese School](/kunstwerke/300px/Japanese_School_-_Section_of_a_map_of_roads_in_Japan_Dai_Nihon_koku_junro_meiki_daisei_A_clear_and_-_(MeisterDrucke-1352471).jpg "Section of a map of roads in Japan. Dai Nihon koku junro meiki daisei. [\"A clear and minute map of the high roads of Japan\"] 1850 by Japanese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1129204).jpg "Public Meeting in Tokyo, End Nineteenth Century by Japanese School")
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.jpg "A Meeting between Japanese Officers and Korean Officials, an Episode from the Sino-Japanese War, Late 19th Century by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Horokaku Mandara: The Buddha and attendant divinities, Heian Period by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Inro and tobacco pouch: Tobacco Pouch with Hiramaki-e design, signed Zeshin; Inro, foxes wedding procession in Sumi-e Togidashi, signed Toyo; Inro, two sages reading a scroll in Sumi-e by Japanese School")
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 Kamakura period (1185-1333) second half of the 13th century (wood lacquer gold leaf) (see also 394838) - (MeisterDrucke-110686).jpg "Jizo Bosatsu (Ksitigarbha), Kamakura period, second half of the 13th century by Japanese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-906261).jpg "Netsuke modeled as a hare with amber eyes by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Low Cylindrical Tea Bowl, Kyoto, Kyoto-fu, Edo Period, First Half 19th Century by Japanese School")
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.jpg "A Buddhist monk")
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.jpg "Portuguese screen: a representation of the arrival of Portuguese Jesuit missionaries in Japan in the 16th century by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Sheet of paper used to wrap documents associated with tea-leaf storage jar by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Section of a map of roads in Japan.")
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.jpg "Large bottle vase, decorated in Holland in the Imari style, Ko-Imari, late 17th century (detail) by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Two men and a woman behind an awning (detail) by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Samurai of Old Japan armed with full body armour, 1890 by Japanese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-432787).jpg "Bird diving onto snow-covered bamboo by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Album of Copies of Chinese Paintings by Japanese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1542487).jpg "Osakazu Byobu - Japanese eight-panel folding screen by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Tea bowl in mishima style, Edo period, early 17th century by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Train at Yokohama, 2nd half nineteenth century by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Tea-leaf storage jar with four lugs on squared shoulder, Edo period by Japanese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-436391).jpg "Tea ceremony water jar, Kyoto, Edo period by Japanese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1646149).jpg "Reed and Wild Goose, Late 15th - Early 16th Century by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Plants of Autumn and Winter, c.1550 by Japanese School")
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.jpg "The Chinese Emperor Ming Huang and his concubine Yang Kuei-fei playing and singing to make the flowers bloom, Edo period by Japanese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1034423).jpg "Crows by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Album of Copies of Chinese Paintings by Japanese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1636807).jpg "First Sino-Japanese War: Japanese troops cross the Great Wall of China by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Sixth Korean Embassy to Japan in Meireki 1 at the time of Tokugawa Ietsunas succession in 1651, possibly by Kano Masunobu (1625-94) (detail) by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Tea ceremony water jar, Edo period, mid 17th-mid 18th century by Japanese School")
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 Kamakura period (1185-1333) second half of the 13th century (wood lacquer gold leaf) (see also 394837) - (MeisterDrucke-86558).jpg "Jizo Bosatsu (Ksitigarbha), Kamakura period (1185-1333), second half of the 13th century (wood, lacquer and gold leaf) by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Conversation between a samurai and a Japanese nobleman - in")
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.jpg "Hizume-no-Hyoshi, no.29, 1898 by Japanese School")
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_Meiji-Tasho_Period_-_(MeisterDrucke-906130).jpg "Storage Trunk by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Tea-leaf storage jar, Imbe, Okayama prefecture, Edo period, 18th-19th century by Japanese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-436377).jpg "Jar for candy pellets, Edo period, early 19th century by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Tea bowl with notched foot, Edo period by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Tea caddy with two lugs, Koishibara, Edo period by Japanese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-906153).jpg "Haniwa Warrior, Late 6th Century by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Tea ceremony water jar, Edo period, 18th-19th century by Japanese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-421416).jpg "Jar and Cover Decorated with Kakiemon Enamels, c.1680 by Japanese School")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-440512).jpg "Basin Used for a Buddhist Hand-washing Ceremony, 1345 or 1406 by Japanese School")
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.jpg "Sixth Korean Embassy to Japan in Meireki 1 at the time of Tokugawa Ietsuna")
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.jpg "Tea bowl, Edo period by Japanese School")
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_of_Karimata_(forked_wild-goose)_type_(steel)_-_(MeisterDrucke-1010659).jpg "Yanone (Arrowhead) of Forked")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-911222).jpg "Gunbai, War Fan, Edo Period by Japanese School")
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