Preface | |
Map of Japan | |
The Birth of Japan | |
The Neolithic Jomon and the Protohistoric | |
Yayoi and Kofun Periods | |
Out of Myth and into the Archaeological Record | |
The Jomon Period (c. 11,000-400 B.C.E.) | |
Incipient (c. 11.0008.000 B.C.E.) and Initial Jomon (c. 8000-5000 B.C.E.) phases | |
Early Jomon (c. 5000-2500 B.C.E.) phase | |
Middle Jomon (c. 2500-1500 B.C.E.) phase | |
Late (c.1500-1000 B.C.E.) and Final Jomon (c. 1000-400 B.C.E.) phases | |
The Yayoi Period (c. 400 B.C.E.-300 C.E.) | |
The Three Sacred Treasures | |
Dotaku | |
Ceramics | |
The Kofun Period (300-710 C.E.) | |
Haniwa | |
Mirrors | |
Other Grave Goods | |
Ornamented Tombs | |
Imperial Models | |
The Impact of China and Buddhisni ofro Japan | |
Centralization of Power | |
Beginnings of a Metropolitan Court Culture | |
The Creation of an Imperial City | |
The Introduction of Writing | |
Silk Roads to Japan | |
Decorative Arts (sixth to eighth centuries) | |
Shinto | |
Shinto Architecture | |
Buddhism | |
Buddhism's Introduction to Japan | |
Architecture | |
Horyuji | |
Yakushiji | |
Kofukuji | |
Todaiji: The Nation's Temple | |
Toshodaiji | |
Tori Busshi and Asuka-Period Sculpture (552-645) | |
Asuka Painting: The Tamamushi Shrine | |
Hakuho Sculpture: Horyuji | |
Hakuho Painting | |
HakuhM Sculpture: Yakushiji | |
Early Nara Sculpture and Painting | |
Mid-Nara Sculpture: Todaiji | |
Dry-Lacquer and Clay Sculpture | |
Arts of the Late-Nara Period | |
Capital of Peace and Tranquillity | |
The Heian Period anti the Caning of Age of a Native Aesthetic | |
Overbearing Monks and Vengeful Ghosts | |
Early Heian Period | |
Middle Heian or Fujiwara Period | |
Late Heian or Insei Period | |
Rebellion | |
The Arts in the Late Heian Period | |
Heian and the Imperial Palace | |
Life at Court | |
Shinden | |
Interior Decoration | |
Gardens | |
Literature and Calligraphy | |
Poetry | |
Women of Letters | |
The Rise of Yamato-e | |
Emakimono and Papermaking | |
Emakimono | |
The Genji Monagatari emaki | |
The Choju jinbutsu | |
The Shigisan engi emaki | |
The Ban Dainagon ekotoba | |
Buddhist Arts | |
Buddhism of the Tendai and Shingon Schools | |
Shingon Architecture | |
Shingon Mandala Paintings | |
Early Portrait Painting | |
Sculpture | |
Temple Architecture | |
Jinoji | |
Single-Block and Multiple-Block Wood Sculpture | |
Muroji | |
Daigoji | |
Fuda and the Godairiki Bosatsu | |
Architecture of the Middle Heian | |
The Phoenix Hall | |
Independent Raigo Paintings | |
Shaka Paintings | |
Buddhist Temples of the Late Heian Period | |
Joruriji | |
Chusonji | |
Sanju sangendo | |
Late Heian Hanging Scrolls and Illustrated Sutras | |
Shinto Arts | |
Changing of the Guard | |
The Rise of the Samurai and theTwiiight of the Imperial Order | |
Cultural Flowering from Chaos and Upheaval | |
End of an Epoch: The Hogen, Heiji, and Genpei Wars | |
The First Shogun: Minamoto no Yoritomo | |
Repairing the Damage: Cultural Revival in the Early Kamakura Period | |
Decline into Perpetual Civil War: The Nambokucho and Muromachi Periods | |
Rakucha Rakugai | |
Decorative and Applied Arts | |
Armor and Lacquerware | |
Textiles | |
Ceramics | |
Literary and Calligraphic Arts of the Imperial Court | |
Emakimono of the Medieval Period | |
The Rebuilding of Todaiji and Kofukuji | |
The Kei School of Sc | |
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