shogunate

Examples of shogunate in the following topics:

• Zen Ink Painting

  • The Ashikaga clan took control of the shogunate and moved its headquarters back to Kyoto, to the Muromachi district of the city.
  • Because of secular ventures and trading missions to China organized by Zen temples, many Chinese paintings and objects of art were imported into Japan, profoundly influencing Japanese artists working for Zen temples and the shogunate.
  • He became director of the court painting bureau that had been established by Ashikaga shoguns, who were influential art patrons.
  • The painting was commissioned by the 4th Shogun of the Muromachi Period, Ashikaga Yoshimochi (1386–1428), and was based on the nonsensical riddle: "How do you catch a catfish with a gourd?"

• Rinpa School Painting in the Edo Period

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Kōetsu came from a family of swordsmiths who had served the imperial court and great warlords and shoguns.

• Kanō School Painting in the Edo Period

  • The school was supported by the shogunate, effectively representing an official style of art; under the Edo period in which art and culture were strictly regulated, this essentially monopolized the field of painting.
  • Kanō painters worked primarily for the nobility, shoguns, and emperors, covering a wide range of styles, subjects, and formats.

• Art of Pure Land Buddhism

  • The ascension of Minamoto Yoritomo to the title of Shogun, following the Hōgen and Heiji rebellions and the victory of the Minamoto clan over the Taira, marked the beginning of the Kamakura period.

• Art of Esoteric Buddhism

  • The term Heian period refers to the years between 794 and 1185, when the Kamakura shogunate was established at the end of the Genpei War.

• Ukiyo-e Woodblock Prints in the Edo Period

  • Just as ukiyo-e artists chose to depict figures from life outside of the strictures of the Tokugawa shogunate, bunjinga artists turned to Chinese culture and based their paintings on those of Chinese scholar-painters.

• Japanese Painting and Sculpture in the Kamakura Period

  • These wars eventually led to the rise of the feudalistic Kamakura shogunate.
  • Sculptors of the time often worked for the Kamakura shogunate and other military clans, producing Buddhist sculptures as well as portrait sculptures.

• Japanese Calligraphy in the Kamakura Period

  • The ascension of Minamoto Yoritomo to the title of Shogun, following the Hōgen and Heiji rebellions and the victory of the Minamoto clan over the Taira, marked the beginning of the Kamakura period (1185–1333 CE).

• The Tea Ceremony

  • Both Oda Nobunaga—the initiator of the unification of Japan under the shogunate in the late 16th century—and his successor Toyotomi Hideyoshi lavished time and money on this pastime, collecting tea bowls and other implements, sponsoring lavish social events, and patronizing acclaimed masters of the tea ceremony.

• Influence of Buddhism in the Heian Period

  • The Heian Period, as it came to be called, refers to the years between 794 and 1185, when the Kamakura shogunate was established at the end of the Genpei War.