Edo

Examples of Edo in the following topics:

• Kanō School Painting in the Edo Period

  • The Kanō School, which had a naturalistic style, was the dominant style of the Edo period (1603 - 1868).
  • The Kanō School (狩) was the dominant style of painting during the Edo period.
  • By the end of the Edo period and the beginning of the Meiji period (1868), the Kanō School had divided into many different branches.
  • Tan'yū headed the Kajibashi branch of the Kanō School in Edo and painted in many castles, including the Imperial palace.
  • Describe the defining characteristics of the Kano School during the Edo Period, and distinguish it from literati painting

• Crafts in the Edo Period

  • Traditional Japanese handicrafts associated with the Edo period include temari (a toy handball for children), doll-making, lacquerware, and weaving.
  • Of the many and varied traditional handicrafts of Japan, the one closely associated with the Edo period (1600–1868) is the ancient craft of temari.
  • Another craft that developed during the Edo period, while Japan was closed to most international trade, was doll-making.
  • Japanese lacquerwork reached its peak in the 17th century during the Edo period.
  • Several techniques of Japanese weaving and dying also thrived during the Edo period.

• Zenga Painting in the Edo Period

  • Zenga is the Japanese term for the practice and art of Zen Buddhist painting and calligraphy, which developed during the Edo period.
  • Though Zen Buddhism had arrived in Japan at the end of the 12th century, Zenga art didn't come into its own until the beginning of the Edo period in 1600.

• Rinpa School Painting in the Edo Period

  • In the early years of the Edo period, some of Japan's finest expressions in painting were produced by the Rinpa School.
  • In the Edo (江) or Tokugawa (徳) period between 1603 to 1868, Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate, a form of military rule headed by the shogun.
  • It was officially established in Edo on March 24, 1603 by Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543–1616).
  • The period came to an end with the Meiji Restoration on May 3, 1868, after the fall of Edo to forces loyal to the Emperor.
  • One of the dominant themes in the Edo period was the repressive policies of the shogunate and the attempts of artists to escape these strictures.

• Ukiyo-e Woodblock Prints in the Edo Period

  • With the rise of popular culture in the Edo period, a style of woodblock prints called ukiyo-e became a major art form.
  • With the rise of popular culture in the Edo period, a style of woodblock prints called ukiyo-e became a major art form.
  • The best known work of ukiyo-e from the Edo period is the woodblock print series.
  • Describe the ukiyo-e woodblock prints of Edo Japan, and the social milieu they most famously depicted

• Japanese Literati Painting in the Edo Period

  • An important art trend during the Edo period was the bunjinga or Nanga School, a kind of literati painting highly influenced by China literati.
  • An important trend in the Edo period was the rise of the bunjinga genre, a kind of literati painting, also known as the Nanga School or Southern Painting school.
  • As part of the Nanga School, the bunjinga style of Japanese painting flourished in the late Edo period among artists who considered themselves literati, or intellectuals.
  • Under the Edo period policy of sakoku, Japan was cut off from the outside world almost completely.
  • Discuss literati painting in Edo Japan and its debt to China

• Benin

  • Not to be confused with the present-day country of Benin, this empire dissolved into what is today the Edo State of Nigeria, marked by the capital, Benin City.
  • Scattered pieces of the structure remain in Edo today.

• The Todaiji

  • Only a few fragments of the original statue survive, and the present hall and central Buddha are reconstructions from the Edo period.
  • The current hands of the statue were made in the Momoyama Period (1568–1615), and the head was made in the Edo period (1615–1867).

• Benin

  • Also referred to as the Edo Empire, this empire existing in a pre-colonial African state in what is now Nigeria.

• The Benin Bronzes

  • Collectively, the plaques form the best known examples of Benin art created by the Edo people from the 13th century; other forms of Benin art consist of additional sculptures in brass or bronze, including some famous portrait heads and smaller pieces.
  • In 1936, Oba Akenzua II, the traditional leader of the Edo people in Nigeria, began a movement to return the art to its proper place in Nigeria; however, only two of the 3,000 bronzes were returned by the end of his reign in 1978.