Japanese face painting.

Image courtesy of Jeyjoo Gallery

One of the most popular art forms in Japan is Painting. Chinese painting style has lots of
influence on the Japanese kind of painting that are beautiful, nice and sometimes very
complex or intricate. In the of Muromachi (1338-1573), Chinese style of paintings was
established or introduced in Japan, ukiyo-e because of the invasion of Chinese trade.
Noblemen of Japan started buying these Chinese paintings to be seen their houses and so
started liking the Chinese painting style. This affinity with the painters of Japan for the
Chinese paintings made them adopt the style for creating nice masterpieces that might
appeal to the flavors of Japan. In other words, Chinese type of paintings were the fore runner
for Japanese paintings.

Japanese painters have been in the of Muromachi depicted a deeper a sense space every
painting portrayed a tale. Painting on landscapes developed at that time of Momoyama (1573
- 1603) that are normally depicted on huge screens. During the time scale of Edo (1603 -
1867), a complete different way of painting emerged where gold leaf backgrounds received
to the paintings to secure a holy mosaic effect that belonged to the Western Medieval period.
Ukiyo-e style of painting emerged involving woodblock printing simultaneously. Thus,
Japanese paintings are abundant with their medium of portrayal and also this makes them
very fascinating.

Japanese painting had an influence in the styles of western too back then of Meiji (1868 -
1912). Various schools for painting were open in Japan and every school followed the style
of their interest. Suibokuga points to your painting that utilizes black ink for paintings. This
were built with a unique mark of Zen Buddhism having inherited from China.

Kano Motonobu (1476 - 1559) and with this father Kano Masanobu established the Kano
school for painting, which were only available in a revolt contrary to the Suibokuga strategy
for painting using black ink. Kano school used vibrant and bright colors and did great deal of
experiments with thick compositions which had flat and huge areas. These are the source of
stimulation for the designs of Ukiyo-e. Nanga kind of painting was very prominent back then
of Bunsai and Bunka.

Paintings of Japanese have captured many people's hearts due to their artistic beauty and a
feeling of space of their paintings. Artists of Japan used a huge range of mediums for their
paintings. Most well-known subjects of Japanese paintings were women, reputed places,
landscapes and wonderful views.