PBS
Pbs: Sister Wendy's American Collection: Netsuke
Webpage describing a netsuke, a small decorative Japanese toggle, from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Image of art provided as well as an option of a larger version or a detail viewer that can be navigated. Also includes a quote...
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Mississippi Museum of Art: Homepage
The Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson is the largest museum in the state, and has the largest collection of art by and about Mississippians. The collection is also notably strong in 19th and 20th century American landscape paintings,...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Suminagashi Self Portrait
In this lesson, students learn about the Japanese technique of suminagashi by viewing a podcast and then using the technique to create a self portrait. Podcast is linked in the lesson plan. [9:49]
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Lacma Collections Online
This Los Angeles museum offers online exhibits of international art. Focuses include contemporary art and collections from Asia, Europe, Africa and North America.
PBS
Pbs: Sister Wendy's American Collection: An Exiled Emperor on Okinoshima
Webpage describing An Exiled Emperor on Okinoshima, a six-fold screen from the Kimbell Art Museum. Image of art provided as well as an option of a larger version or a detail viewer that can be navigated. Also includes a quote about the...
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Care of Japanese Screens: Basic Care
This site contains information on the basic care for Japanese Screens. It also includes a link to Japanese Screen Emergency Care.
University of Oxford (UK)
Pitt Rivers Museum: Japanese Noh Masks
A fact sheet created by the Pitt Rivers Museum to aid understanding of Japanese Noh masks. Read also about the history of the Noh theater.
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The Web Kanzaki: Chronology of Japan's Fine Arts
A timeline from The Web Kanzaki of the historical movements in the development of Japanese fine art. Very general information.
Smithsonian Institution
Freer | Sackler Galleries: Gallery Guide: The Art of Buddhism
An examination of the aesthetic tradition of Buddhist art in India, China, and Japan, with examples pulled from the Smithsonian galleries devoted to the art of Asia.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Hokusai, Under the Wave Off Kanagawa (The Great Wave)
Katsushika Hokusai's "Under the Wave off Kanagawa", also called "The Great Wave" has become one of the most famous works of art in the world-and debatably the most iconic work of Japanese art. View the picture and read the history behind...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Look for the Symbol in the Sculpture
This websites answers the question, "What is a Symbol?" Click on the sculptures for a description of the symbols in each work.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Kitano Tenjin Engi Emaki
Multimedia site introduces the legend, or "Engi," of the Kitano Shrine in Kyoto, Japan, as told on Japanese picture scrolls ("Emaki").
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Minneapolis Institute of Art: The Art of Asia: Ceramics
Learn about the Chinese contribution to ceramic art from the Neolithic era through the Sung Dynasty.
Library of Congress
Loc: On the Cutting Edge Exhibition Home
A vast collection of contemporary Japanese prints done by women artists.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: Ukiyo E "Images From the Floating World"
This is a site on Japanese artists from this period. There is also a link to Western artists that influenced the Ukiyo-e artists after Japan was opened to the West after 1867.
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Andreas.com: Hokusai (1760 1849)
This personal site gives a biography of the famous Japanese artist, Hokusai. It discusses his most famous work, "The Great Wave", and other works.
Scholastic
Scholastic Instructor: Origami Math
Have you ever tried origami? This Japanese form of paper folding is the basis of this math lesson plan. Students will have an opportunity to integrate their creative side with their math skills.
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Yamaha: Papercrafts
Downloadable PDF papercraft (origami) patterns for motorcycles, animals, and seasonal Japanese materials. Patterns include sophisticated designs that will definitely require skill to complete.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Mary Cassatt
A site by the National Gallery of Art of twelve selected Cassatt color prints. There is also a biography of the artist.
Other
Kanzaki: Traditional Performing Arts in Japan
This site succinctly explains the terminology of Classical Japanese theater. Good source for direct reference.
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Mead Art Museum
Located in Amherst, MA. The Mead Art Museum houses the art collections of Amherst College, some 14,000 works acquired since 1839. It includes one of the nation's finest collegiate collections of American art, also European art,...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: An Introduction to the Samurai
This article describes the rise and fall of the Shogunate in Japan. Included are pictures of Japanese art from these periods in Japanese history.
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Lesson: You Too Can Haiku
Here's a creative lesson for students to examine various haikus, and Japanese culture, then write their own haiku poem, and illustrate it using watercolors! Provides plenty of links to more information, a thorough explanation of the...
Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Web Japan: Sports
Sports are important in Japan, as they are in many countries. Read about Japan's traditional sports as well as the more modern ones in this article from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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