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Japanese landscape painted across a six-panel folding screen

Japanese Aesthetics

Japanese aesthetics encompasses historically distinct ideas about feeling, suggestion, material age, interval, and urban style across literature, performance, and the arts.

Mature Japanese white pine bonsai displayed in a shallow pot

Bonsai

Bonsai is the long-term cultivation and display of trees in containers as living compositions shaped through horticulture and aesthetic judgement.

Ikebana composition of branches and flowers displayed in Tokyo

Ikebana

Ikebana is the Japanese art of arranging plant materials through line, space, season, vessel, and the character of each material.

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Shodo (Calligraphy)

Shodo is Japanese calligraphy: the art and practice of writing characters with brush, ink, and focused movement.