Japanese painting

art from Japan

painting technique

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art of painting in Japan

thumb|Scene from The Tale of Genji by Tosa Mitsuoki, from the 17th century [[Tosa school revival of the style]] is a style of Japanese painting inspired by Tang dynasty paintings and fully developed by the late Heian period. It is considered the classical Japanese style. From the Muromachi period (15th century), the term yamato-e has been used to distinguish work from contemporary Chinese-style paintings , which were inspired by Chinese Song and Yuan-era ink wash paintings.

genre of Chinese painting

thumb|Lake Shore (湖畔), by Kuroda Seiki (1897) thumb|Reminiscence of the Tempyō Era (天平の面影), by [[Fujishima Takeji (1902)]]

four plants (plum blossom, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum), representing the four seasons; East Asian artistic theme

East Asian art motif of the pine, bamboo and plum

right|250px|thumb|Portrait of Matsuo Bashō by [[Yokoi Kinkoku, c. 1820. The calligraphy relates one of Bashō's most famous haiku poems: Furu ike ya / kawazu tobikomu / mizu no oto (An old pond / a frog jumps in / the sound of water).]]

thumb|Nishimura Shigenobu, Shōki and Girl, c. 1720s. Woodblock print with hand-coloring and lacquer (urushi). [[Hosoban. 13 in. x 5 5/8 in.]] thumb|Okumura Toshinobu (active 1717–1750), 'Young Lovers by Mount Fuji', About 1720, urushi-e (lacquer print) V&A Museum no. E.1419-1898

national treasures of Japan, paintings

thumb|Imperial guardians handscroll detail

Tarashikomi (in Japanese 垂らし込み, meaning "dripping in") is a Japanese painting technique, in which a second layer of paint is applied before the first layer is dry. This effect creates a dripping form for fine details such as ripples in water or flower petals on a tree. Japanese paintings in the past were usually done on paper (or silk) with watercolors. The paintings in the Tomb of Kyushu are some of the earliest Japanese art, painted on the tomb’s walls between the fifth and seventh centuries AD. Silk and paper came from China, and in the seventh century was used primarily for writing; howeve