Werner Forman Archive

ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL JAPAN

 

Landscapes, gardens, monuments, castles, palaces and Japanese art and traditional crafts since prehistoric times but particularly the Kamakura and Heian periods.

There is a fine collection of samurai armour and performances and masks of Noh, Kabuki and Bunraku.

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Tea house interior at the Katsura Imperial Villa.

Kyoto, 1590.

Permission Imperial Household Agency.

Samurai armour.

L J Anderson Collection.

Nijo Castle, the headquarters of the Tokoguwa Bakufu.

Kyoto, 17th C.

 

Woodcut print of Samurai on horseback fording a river. By Toyokuni.

Japan, 1795. National Gallery, Prague.

Screen painting of the Nijo Castle.

Kyoto, early 17th C.

Burke Collection, New York.

Haniwa warrior.

Japan, 6th C.

Seattle Art Museum.

Buddha.

Middle Edo period.

Shirley Day, London.

Ukiyo-e print by Utamaro, entitled "Poem of the Pillow".

Late 18th C.

Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

Noh theatre mask of the demon Hannya.

Japan, 1280.

Noh Theatre Collection, Kongo School, Kyoto.

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