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Art of Japan and the Altered Reality of Hiroshige by Van Gogh

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Japan poetry and Yosa Buson: Footsteps of Matsuo Bashō

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Kano Sanraku (1559-1635) and art of Japan: The world of power concentration

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Ando Hiroshige and Japan art: Sexuality, landscapes, and becoming a Buddhist Monk

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Japan art and Confucianism: The Bleak reality of Seppuku for a thoughtful artist

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Art of Japan and Sado Island: Trilogy of Nichiren in the Snow during his exile

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Japanese art and Claude Monet

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Japan art and one-sided love: Frailty of life despite his boundless love of Paris

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Contemporary Japanese artist and L. S. Lowry in Full Bloom by Sawako Utsumi

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Buddhist monk Jien and a window into old Japan (1155-1225): Poetry and history

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Poetry of old Japan: Yamabe and the devoutly Buddhist Emperor Shōmu

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Japanese art, Goshun, and the influence of Buson: The artistic heaven on earth

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Japanese art and poetry: The last throes before the ghost of time

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Buddhist art and the Japanese priest Mokuan Reien: The Middle Kingdom and Mu Qi

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Art of Japan and Kume Keiichirō: Stability despite the change

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Contemporary Japanese artist and adorable landscape titled “Hakone in Natural Splendor”

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Sugawara Mitsushige and Buddhism: Bodhisattva Kannon and the Middle Kingdom

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Soga Shōhaku went against the grain in the eighteenth century: Art of the Muromachi Period

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Kanzan Shimomura and art of Japan: The flows of Buddhist art, Kano, Rinpa, and the school of Tosa

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Art of Japan in a changing environment: Paris and Saburosuke Okada

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Sengai Gibon and Rinzai Buddhism: Artistic Outreach and Buddhist Contemplation

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The reality of poverty for the Japanese artist Eisen and his independent nature

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Power dynamics of art and the Tosa School: Richness of culture and Buddhism

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Art of Japan and Kiyoo: Social and political convulsions but artistic continuity

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Japanese art and the stunning artistic beauty of Totoya Hokkei (1780-1850)

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Japanese art and the exile of a holy Buddhist priest

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Art of Japan and the remaining shadow of Shintoism

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Art of Japan and the Bridge in the Rain: Van Gogh and Hiroshige

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Art of Japan and changing times: Yokohama-e and Western encroachment

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Art of Japan and Nichiren Buddhism in the soul of Rinpa art

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Japanese Buddhist poetry of the fourteenth century: Jakushitsu Genkō (1290-1367)

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