It is featured prominently in historic Japanese art work, including wood blocks prints.
This now forms the core of the Japanese art collections housed in the National Museum of Ethnology at Leiden.
Victorian collectors usually preferred intricate, narrative Japanese art which they found relatively accessible.
Reiki, the Japanese art of laying on hands, is based on the notion that an unseen, life-giving source of energy flows through our bodies.
Strict union job classifications stifle innovation, says William Schwartz, a business consultant who has run workshops at Pella Corp. on kaizen, the Japanese art of continual improvement.
Clearly too he liked innovations in technique that may seem small to us but, in the tradition-bound and slow-moving context of Japanese art and design, were quite significant.
In Japanese art and poetry, cherry blossoms have also served as metaphors for "the ephemerality of life", said James Ulak, the senior curator of Japanese art at Washington's Freer and Sackler art galleries, in an interview with NPR.
Mr. Carpenter, who was appointed curator of Japanese art in July 2011, devotes about a fifth of the permanent exhibition space to ancient artifacts and Buddhist art and uses the remaining galleries to stage six-month-long installations, each illustrating an aspect of Japanese art.
Kumiodori is a Japanese performing art found on the Okinawa islands.
Nachi no Dengaku is a Japanese folk performing art danced at Kumano Nachi Shrine during the annual Nachi Fire Festival.
Nachi no Dengaku is a Japanese folk performing art with a deep connection to Kumano Sanzan, a sacred site in Nachisanku.
Meanwhile, over the past decade or so, a concentration of cutting-edge galleries - featuring everything from SoCal's native lowbrow street and graffiti artists to Japanese pop-art imports - has reclaimed an industrial area on Culver's eastern edge, creating an arts district to rival New York's Chelsea neighbourhood.
Carpenter calls his current installation in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Japanese galleries.
Six months after the Van Gogh sold to Japanese paper merchant Ryoei Saito , the art market's bubble burst and prices plummeted.
The Nahmads amassed so much cash selling to the Japanese during the 1980s that when the art crash hit in 1989, they kept on buying, at fire-sale prices, boosting their inventory.
In the 1980s, Japanese buyers dominated the market for Impressionist and Modern art.
With that simple proposition, the Japanese painter Yoshihara Jiro launched Gutai, the manic art movement that rallied Japan after the Second World War.
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And by the 1980s many Japanese buyers had an instinctive preference for pastel colours in art as well as in fashion.
Christie's won't name the seller, a Japanese conglomerate that bought the work at the height of the 1980s art bubble and must now, because of financial pressure, get rid of it.
The result a grid of cubbyholes filled with art books and collectibles, like a polka dot paperweight by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama.
Christie's won't name the seller, a Japanese industrial conglomerate that bought the work at the height of the 1980s art bubble and must now, because of financial pressure, get rid of it.
Until we heard about an upcoming product from Japanese Lofty, we were pretty sure that we knew all about the art of napping (we usually just take one when we're tired), but the company's new high-tech pillow indicates that there's more guesswork involved in naptime than we'd previously thought.
Back in the 1980s, Japanese bankers poured billions of dollars into residential and commercial real estate and fine art both inside and outside their country, financing one of the biggest bubbles in modern history.
Members of this Committee, others in the Congress, Cabinet officers in the new Bush Administration, policy analysts and leading industrialists were aghast at the imminent prospect of a technology in which the United States leads the world state-of-the-art aerospace design and manufacturing being sold off to the Japanese.
Members of this Committee, others in the Congress, Cabinet officers in the new Bush Administration, policy analysts and leading industrialists were aghast at the imminent prospect of a technology in which the United States leads the world -- state-of-the-art aerospace design and manufacturing -- being sold off to the Japanese.
Glass walls that permit the museum's art to be viewed from as far away as Wilshire Boulevard are key elements of Zumthor's prototype, which would connect other buildings including a beloved Japanese pavilion and an Academy of Motion Pictures museum with an indoor-outdoor art park, where visitors can wander at will and preview exhibitions before entering.
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"I thought it would be perfect for the Japanese market, " Wong recalls, noting that in Japan girls embrace cartoons and other childlike art.
The art market is on fire, with the last big bulge having been created by the Japanese.
Mr. Ching said Sotheby's gallery will aim to educate Chinese buyers on Western art by first introducing them to Asian artists who already enjoy an international following, like Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, as well as 19th-century French painters such as Claude Monet, whose Impressionist landscapes are immediately recognizable to collectors everywhere, Mr. Ching said.
In 1976, Miyamoto, then age twenty-four, was a recent art-college graduate, with a degree in industrial design and an enduring fascination with the Japanese comic strips called manga.
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