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Japanese Art in the Meiji Period
Nihonga style painting: Black Cat by Kuroki Neko, 1910)
Nihonga style paintings were made in accordance with traditional Japanese artistic conventions, techniques, and materials. While based on traditions over a thousand years old, the term was coined in the Meiji period of the Imperial Japan to distinguish such works from Western style paintings, or Yōga.
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"Kuroki Neko by Hishida Shunso."
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