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context: painting > general comments
Chinese influence
I hope to expand this into a substantial section at some point with lots of examples of the kind of Chinese art I'll be referencing in various places throughout this site, but for now I'll just note some major phases:
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A Sailboat in the Rain, by Xia Gui |
- Sixth/Seventh Century: Buddhism and its priests, plus expertise in making and using paper and ink.
- Thirteenth/Fourteenth Century: Zen priests, plus ink landscape painting.
- Seventeenth Century: escapees from the collapsing Ming revived interest, and influenced the literati painters.
- Early eighteenth: Kyoho reforms allowed Chinese books into Japan once more.
This doesn't sound like much, written in a few lines. But until the first modest Western influence from the 17th Century on, and aside from a significant minority influence from Korea (another section for the future), EVERYTHING in Japanese culture for many, many centuries came from China.