Surf these sites: 50 Paintings from the Price Collection -- Presented by the Shin''enKan Foundation, with bios of the artists. Mostly Edo period. Atelier Bell''occhio, Ltd. -- San Francisco based art publishing company, exclusive worldwide publisher of the works by Japanese artist Muramasa Kudo. Chotai Yonaha -- Contemporary artist. Examples of his works and a short biography. Hiroshi -- Contemporary abstract oils. Hisashi Otsuka -- Classical Japanese artwork. Hokusai in Obuse -- The Third International Hokusai Conference (1998). Includes history of Hokusai''s ties to the town, and some examples of his paintings and drawings located in Obuse. Kyoto National Museum -- The Kano School in the Muromachi Period Kyoto National Museum: Special Exhibition -- An exhibit honoring the centenary of the museum: In Praise of the Paintings of the Momoyama period. Five pairs of folding screens illustrated. [Be sure to click on the enlargements, as the small versions don''t do them justice.] Otsu-e -- Otsu-e: Japanese Folk Paintings from the Harriet and Edson Spencer Collection, an exhibition at the Williams College Museum of Art, from the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Several examples from the exhibit. Good background explanation of each theme depicted. Inscriptions translated. Paintings -- Brief history of painting styles, bios of a few leading painters, samples from the collection of the Philbrook Museum. Good text, photos mostly less successful. Rekihaku Internet Gallery -- Two pairs of 6-panel folding screens Tale of Genji -- 54 17th century album leaves illustrating The Tale of Genji in the style of the Tosa school. Each page is accompanied by an English translation of the text, and an explanation of the scene. Tomizo Kitamura, 20th Century Painter -- Page dedicated to the man and the artist by his grandson. Bio, photos, oils, watercolors, drawings.
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