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    Yamato-e (大和絵) is a style of Japanese painting inspired by Tang dynasty paintings and fully developed by the late Heian period. It is considered the classical...
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  • Look up Yamato or 大和 in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Yamato (大和) was originally the area around today's Sakurai City in Nara Prefecture of Japan,...
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  • Yamato-damashii (大和魂, "Yamato/Japanese spirit") or Yamato-gokoro (大和心, "Japanese heart/mind") is a Japanese language term for the cultural values and...
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    paths: the nativist Yamato-e tradition, focusing on Japanese themes, best known by the works of the Tosa school; and Chinese-inspired kara-e in a variety of...
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    Yamato (Japanese: 大和, named after the ancient Yamato Province) was the lead ship of her class of battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN)...
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    The Yamato-class battleships (大和型戦艦, Yamato-gata senkan) were two battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, Yamato and Musashi, laid down leading up...
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    Emakimono (redirect from E-maki)
    stories, or illustrating religious texts and legends. Fully anchored in the yamato-e style, these Japanese works are above all an everyday art, centered on...
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    The Yamato people (大和民族, Yamato minzoku, lit. 'Yamato ethnicity') or the Wajin (和人 / 倭人, lit. 'Wa people') is a term to describe the ethnic group that...
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    The Yamato period (大和時代, Yamato-jidai) is the period of Japanese history when the Imperial court ruled from modern-day Nara Prefecture, then known as...
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    painting called Yamato-e. The work is a prime example of both Heian period scroll painting and Yamato-e, as most of the early scroll and Yamato-e paintings...
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    The Yamato Kingship (ヤマト王権, Yamato Ōken) was a tribal alliance centered on the Yamato region (Nara Prefecture) from the 4th century to the 7th century...
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    themes into Japanese style and played a major role in the formation of yamato-e painting style. With the rising importance of Pure Land sects of Japanese...
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  • collection and became a painter in his own right. He is known for his yamato-e paintings in Sumi-e style, following the tradition of Tenshō Shūbun. Geiami and his...
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    the Kanō school, the Maruyama-Shijō school, and the Tosa school of the yamato-e genre, for example. At about the time that the Tokyo Fine Arts School was...
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    Yamato Takeru (ヤマトタケルノミコト, Yamato Takeru no Mikoto), originally Prince Ousu (小碓命, Ousu no Mikoto), was a Japanese folk hero and semi-legendary prince...
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    Buddha, are an early example of Yamato-e, Japanese-style painting, and contain representations of the scenery around Kyoto. E-maki: In the last century of...
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    1864, Yamato, Nara Prefecture) was a Japanese artist from the later Edo Period who was instrumental in reviving the classical style known as Yamato-e. He...
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    begins with the happuri, which is depicted in Heian- and Kamakura-era yamato-e paintings[1] and is thought to have appeared during the 10th or 11th centuries...
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    Yamato-1 is a ship built in the early 1990s by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. at Wadasaki-cho Hyogo-ku, Kobe. It uses magnetohydrodynamic drives (MHDDs)...
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    earliest surviving text of the work and the earliest surviving work in the Yamato-e tradition of narrative illustrated scrolls, which has continued to impact...
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    of the professional painters. Yamato-e style of Japanese painting. A scene from the Biography of the Priest Ippen yamato-e scroll, 1299 Though there are...
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    The Yamato Museum (大和ミュージアム, Yamato Museum) is the nickname of the Kure Maritime Museum (呉市海事歴史科学館, Kure-shi Kaiji Rekishi Kagakukan) in Kure, Hiroshima...
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    in the early Muromachi period (14th–15th centuries), and was devoted to yamato-e, paintings specializing in subject matter and techniques derived from ancient...
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    the Fujiwara after centuries of imitating Chinese forms. Vividly colored yamato-e, Japanese style paintings of court life and stories about temples and shrines...
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    The Yamato Transport Company, Ltd. (ヤマト運輸株式会社, Yamato Un'yu kabushiki gaisha, YTC) is one of Japan's largest door-to-door delivery service companies,...
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  • Yamato (大和町, Yamato-machi) was a town located in Yamato District, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the town had an estimated population of 16,943...
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    painting Hua niao Southern School Zhe School Wu School Contemporary Japanese Yamato-e Rimpa school Emakimono Kanō school Shijō school Superflat Korean Indonesian...
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    of natural beauty. Mitsuoki reinvigorated the Yamato-e(大和絵) style of classical Japanese painting. Yamato-e originated from interest in reproducing early...
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  • 2202, known in Japan as Space Battleship Yamato 2202: Warriors of Love (宇宙戦艦ヤマト2202 愛の戦士たち, Uchū Senkan Yamato Ni-ni-zero-ni Ai no Senshi-tachi), is a...
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    many artists up until modern times. The paintings in the work, in the Yamato-e style, are distinguished by both the dynamism of lines and movement and...
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