Example of Craftsmanship in Japan

• Chinese Influence on Japanese Painting

• Zen Aesthetics

Chinese Influence on Japanese Painting

FUJIWARA TAKANOBU

Portrait of Yoritomo

1179 CE

Color on silk

TAKASE FAMILY

Hitofude-Ryuu Painting

c. 2010 CE

Japanese Single-Stroke (Hitofude) Painting

Member of the Takase Family holding a Hitofude-Ryuu painting

SESSHU TOYO

Splashed-Ink (Haboku) Landscape
(detail of the lower part of a hanging scroll)

1495 CE
Ink on paper

SESSHU TOYO

Winter Landscape

1486 CE
Ink on paper

KANO MOTONOBU

Zen Patriarch Xiangyen Zhixian Sweeping with a Broom

c. 1513 CE
Ink and color on paper

YIN HONG

‎Hundred Birds Admiring the Peacocks

Late 15th to early 16th century CE

SHEN ZHOU

Poet on a Mountain Top

c. 1500 CE

Examples of Sumi Ink Sticks

Sumi Ink Stick with Ink Stone

Making Materials with Care

Zen Aesthetics

Key Aspects of Buddhism

Koans: Aesthetic Thought within Zen Practice

Saiho-ji (a.k.a. Koke-dera, or 'Moss Temple')
Kyoto, 14th century CE

Zen mountains and "waterfall"

Daisen-in, Kyoto, Japan, c. 1488 CE

Karesansui (dry landscape) garden

Ryōan-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan, c. 1488 CE

Design Thinking in Japan

Kogan (tea-ceremony water jar)

Late 16th century CE
Shino glazed stoneware with underglaze from slip decoration

Mid-Century Modern Interior Design

Mid-Century Modern End Table

Wabi-Sabi-Inspired Contemporary Interior Design

KOYAMA KIYOKO

Tea bowl
c. 2000 CE | Stoneware with natural ash glaze

Stoneware cup with clear, crackled glaze, stained by ink
Gold lacquer repair (Kintsugi)

c. 17th century CE

Kintsugi Process

Wabi Sabi & Kintsugi