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1 Intro | with the art of the same period in Southern China enabled
2 Intro | art. Here we find, at each period, the indication and memorial
3 Intro | intense pantheism of the Heian period, the emotionalism of the
4 Intro | the greatness of the Meiji period seems to have been accomplished.
5 Intro | aggressive, as in the Asokan period. For six or~seven years
6 Range | creations of this classic period - natural heirlooms of a
7 Range | every link. It exists at no period in any final mould. It is
8 Range | is thus shifted at this period to the South, while the
9 Range | developed in the Nara-Heian period, under the influence of
10 Confuc| singers and painters of the period.~The consolidated Shu power
11 Confuc| Confucian thought at this period that in the first century
12 Confuc| The architecture of the period is characterised by gigantic
13 Confuc| architectural achievements of this period, however, like the colossal
14 Confuc| wonderful crafts of the period, we have to turn to Japan,
15 Confuc| expression in the Asuka Period. The genius of Toribushi,
16 Taoism| ridicule, even as late as the period of the Hâng dynasty. But,
17 Taoism| system of Machiavelli. The period was prolific of military
18 Taoism| towards the end of the Hâng period, in the freedom and vagaries
19 Taoism| continues] This was the period when learned men retired
20 Taoism| great liberalising Tang period, bursts forth again in the
21 Taoism| were begun in China at this period, so giving the basis for
22 Taoism| first time in this Laoist period, is the worship of the line,
23 Taoism| As no works of the Laoist period are now extant, we are left
24 Taoism| proves that in this early period the two religions were not
25 Buddhi| again as late as the Gupta period, in the habit of covering
26 Buddhi| specimens of this early period, may probably have been
27 Buddhi| personality.~In the post-Asokan period in India we find Buddhist
28 Buddhi| effort, and we have in this period a forcible demonstration
29 Buddhi| create the art of the Heian period.~It was now that the idea
30 Asuka | THE ASUKA PERIOD~550 TO 700 A.D. ~THE first
31 Asuka | A.D. ~THE first Buddhist period in Japan begins with the
32 Asuka | It is called the Asuka period because the capital was
33 Asuka | for China, during the Hâng period, claimed sovereignty over
34 Asuka | to China throughout the period, raises the interesting
35 Asuka | artistic attempts of the period are numerous, and some are
36 Asuka | Chinese garb of the Hâng period of art, and this was done
37 Asuka | existing specimens of this period follow in the main, as far
38 Asuka | only representative of the period, but is a perfect museum
39 Asuka | seen here.~In the Asuka period, when Buddhism first reached
40 Asuka | preponderance in the Soga period, was unable to veto the
41 Asuka | figure in the arts of this period, had migrated to Japan thirty-one
42 Asuka | unfortunate early Tokugawa period, which so obliterates the
43 Asuka | other art specimens of this period. In the Kondo, or Golden
44 Asuka | to the Hâng type of the period. Besides the Buddhas and
45 Asuka | of the paintings of this period consists of the lacquer
46 Asuka | colouring and drawing of the period, which we gather from the
47 Asuka | in reference.~The Asuka Period. - Lasted from the introduction
48 Asuka | Tâng dynasty.~The Fujiwara Period. - From the accession of
49 Asuka | aristocracy.~The Kamakura Period, 1186 to 1394 A.D. - From
50 Asuka | Shogunate.~The Ashikaga Period, 1394 to 1587 A.D. - So
51 Asuka | A.D.~The Later Tokugawa Period. - From the accession of
52 Asuka | school in art.~The Meiji Period. - From the accession of
53 Nara | THE NARA PERIOD~700 TO 800 A.D.~A NEW era
54 Nara | itself in the succeeding period, when the tendency to a
55 Nara | since the pre-Buddhistic period when she produced the Sankhya
56 Nara | grand harmony of the Tang period, whose assimilative idea
57 Nara | predominating impulse of the period, was, of course, that of
58 Nara | intellectual effort of this period being so closely akin to
59 Nara | that the art of the Nara period is reflected from that of
60 Nara | the Vinaya sect in this period, was a sculptor presumably
61 Nara | Asiatic thought.~The Nara period thus inaugurated is remarkable
62 Nara | restoration during the Tokugawa period two hundred years ago, when
63 Nara | proportions of the original period. But any one looking at
64 Nara | Manyo poets of the Nara period.~The Empress Koken, again,
65 Nara | amongst the works of this period.~The pictorial art of Nara -
66 Heian | THE HEIAN PERIOD~800 TO 900 A.D.~THE idea
67 Heian | or Kyoto - as the Heian period, we find a new wave of Buddhist
68 Heian | Indian influence at the period is overwhelming, in art
69 Heian | scientific ideas of this period are expressed as magic,
70 Heian | to the Indian idea of the period, he has the gleaming third
71 Heian | The artistic works of the period are full of this intense
72 Heian | temples of the early Nara period succumbed in the main to
73 Heian | of the sculpture of this period is the Yakshi Buddha, the
74 Heian | strong brushwork of the period.~Heian art is thus a synonym
75 Fujiwa| THE FUJIWARA PERIOD~900 TO 1200 A.D. ~THE Fujiwara
76 Fujiwa| 1200 A.D. ~THE Fujiwara period dates from the ripened ascendency
77 Fujiwa| may be held, in the Heian period, to have completed the apprehension
78 Fujiwa| in the Asuka or pre-Nara period, when perfection was regarded
79 Fujiwa| Koyashan.~The sculpture of the period rose to its greatest height
80 Fujiwa| become fashionable at the period. In this dilemma the warlike
81 Kamaku| THE KAMAKURA PERIOD~1200-1400 A.D.~WITH the
82 Kamaku| class during the Kamakura period points as unmistakably to
83 Kamaku| will. Thus the art of this period lacks both the idealised
84 Ashika| ASHIKAGA PERIOD~1400-1600 A.D. ~THE Ashikaga
85 Ashika| 1600 A.D. ~THE Ashikaga period is named from that branch
86 Ashika| had its own form of that period called Symbolic, or better
87 Ashika| produced in bronze. The first period of Japanese art, from its
88 Ashika| comes the so-called Classic period when beauty is sought as
89 Ashika| Tâng dynasty and the Nara period, and is destined to be hardened
90 Ashika| between Japanese work of this period and that of the Greco-Romans
91 Ashika| as here in the Ashikaga period, we have the higher phase,
92 Ashika| predominant during the Kamakura period. Zen, from the word Dhyan,
93 Ashika| the close of the Kamakura period, now supersedes colour in
94 Ashika| prominent artists of this period are, undoubtedly, these
95 Ashika| illustrious names fill this period, which is unparalleled by
96 Ashika| it is during the Ashikaga period that our national music
97 Ashika| military age, the Kamakura period produced the Bards, who
98 Ashika| opening of the Ashikaga~period, to those No-dances, which
99 Toyoto| TOYOTOMI AND EARLY TOKUGAWA PERIOD~1600-1700 A.D. ~THE Ashikaga
100 Toyoto| The history of the whole period is simply the narrative
101 Toyoto| the central figure of this period is that of Hideyoshi, a
102 Toyoto| the new nobility of that period were men who had created
103 Toyoto| refinement.~The art of this period is more remarkable, therefore,
104 Toyoto| True to the instinct of the period, they expressed themselves
105 Tokuga| LATER TOKUGAWA PERIOD~1700-1850 A.D. ~THE Tokugawas,
106 Tokuga| school during the Ashikaga period. In thus standing out against
107 Tokuga| continuous ever since the Nara period. The inros, the netsukes,
108 Tokuga| lacquer-work articles of the period, were playthings, and as
109 Tokuga| art of the late Tokugawa period only allowed a man to dwell
110 Tokuga| prettiness of the works of this period first came to notice, instead
111 Tokuga| on Jasoku of the Ashikaga period; and here, finally, was
112 Tokuga| representative artist of this period.~Goshun, his rival, the
113 Meiji | THE MEIJI PERIOD~1850 TO THE PRESENT DAY~
114 Meiji | THE PRESENT DAY~THE Meiji period begins formally with the
115 Meiji | learning of the early Tokugawa period. The first Emperor of Ming
116 Meiji | the close of the Kamakura period, and the reader was already
117 Meiji | significant dialogue of this period is that in which an eminent
118 Meiji | the older statesmen of the period, and arouses us now to the
119 Meiji | Tosas in the heroic Kamakura period. Historical painting, enriched
120 Meiji | reconstructive movement of the Meiji period was the preservation and
121 Meiji | composition of the Heian period, enriched by the strongly
122 Vista | tangled skein of the Meiji period, find that single thread
123 Vista | early days of the Asuka period, when the national destiny
124 Vista | devotion of her Fujiwara period, in her heroic reaction
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