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Ukiyo-e ,( Japanese: pictures of the floating world ).

one of the most important genres of art of the Tokugawa period (1603-1867) in Japan. The style is a mixture of therealistic narrative of the emaki ( picture scrolls ) produced in the Kamakura period and the mature decorative style of the Momoyama and Tokugawa periods. The ukiyo-e style also has about it something of both native and foreign realism.

Hokusai

Hokusai was born in the Honjo, Where was quarter miles just east of Edo (Tokyo), and He became interested in drawing at the age of five. He was adopted in childhood by a prestigious artisan family named Nakajima, but he was never accepted as a Nakajina's child.  He was possibly supporting himself; he had been born of connectionism. He said to have served in his youth as clerk in a lending books hop, and from 15 to 18 years of age he was apprenticed to a wood-block engraver. This early training in the book and printing trades obviously contributed to Hokusai's artistic development as a print maker. The earliest contemporary record of Hokusai dates from the year 1778, when, at the age of 18, he became a pupil of the leading ukiyo-e master, Katsukawa Shunshi.

Kyoto east-mountain,Nanzenji, Konchin-in, and Zenrin-ji.Zen,

It’s minimalism of beauty. This house ware build to be Zen philosophy. The building is cover with a lot of trees, and behind of house are garden and facing mountain. From the behind mountain, small water fall to a pond, Beautiful fish are swimming in the men made a pond, The tree are specially trimmed and shaped, the house collaborate with nature.

Ryoanji

 Ryoanji features a dry garden (karesansui), which is principally composed of just sand and stone. While there are many similar examples, Ryoanji is stemmed as the original. Unlike other landscape gardens, Ryoanji does not feature stones of special sizes and shapes, but relies on its intricate composition to create a subtle and harmonic garden. Its brilliance lies on its subtlety and transcendental sensitivities. The development of dry garden is influenced by a number of different sources: the dominant Zen philosophy, the small tray gardens of Japan and China and the imported Chinese Confucian thinking.

Hikone Castle,

 NaosukeIi and his family. The Ii family, from which he was descended, ruled the fief of Hikone and played an important part in the administration of the shoguns—i.e., the military dictators who had in effect ruled Japan since the 12th century. The family owed its prominent position to its standing among the feudal daimyo, the barons who had helped the Tokugawa become shoguns in the early 17th century. When Ii Naosuke was born, the 14th son of Ii Naonaka, his father had already turned over power to his eldest son.

 Louvre Museum

The Louvre building complex underwent a major remodeling in the 1980s and '90s in order to make the old museum more accessible and accommodating to its visitors. To this end, a vast underground complex of offices, shops, exhibition spaces, storage areas, and parking areas, as well as an auditorium, a tourist bus depot, and a cafeteria, was constructed underneath the Louvre's central courtyards of the Court Napoleon and the Court du　Carrousel. The ground-level entrance to this complex was situated in the centre of the Court Napoleon  and was crowned by a controversial steel-and-glass pyramid designed by the American great architect I.M. Pei. The underground complex of support facilities and public amenities was opened in 1989. In 1993, on the museum's 200th anniversary, the rebuilt Richelieu wing, formerly occupied by France's Ministry of Finance, was opened; for the first time, the entire Louvre was devoted to museum purposes. The new wing, also designed by　Pei, had more than 230,000 square feet (21,368 square m) of exhibition space, housing collections of European painting, decorative arts, and Three glass-roofed interior courtyards display、 French sculpture and ancient Assyrian artworks.

Naru

Art Statement

He uses motifs as life symbols, employing them as images or subjects within his paintings. The objects become pictorial devices which symbolically illustrate aspects of life experiences. Doors, Flowers, Beer Can, Horses become powerful images, evoking emotions, provoking questions. Colors symbolize life forces of hope and fear. Like Shakespearean stories, he focuses on life,and universal questions about human existence and happiness. A painted flower questions ,”...has our life bloomed or not?” Doors and windows symbolize both protection and limitation. His paintings are expressionistic, somewhat surreal, often dreamlike. He likes to explore the power of memory and how it changes our perception...howfeelings distort reality. His painting style is innocent, honest, at times naive.According to Naru, “...heta ni kaku to omoshiroi. Agi ga deru. Kimochi gasuru.”..which means to paint childishly, imperfectly, is interesting because itallows the feeling to come out.

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