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[[Image:Sakurai Three Heroes of Three Kingdoms.jpg|thumb|Three Heroes of Three Kingdoms by Sekkan Sakurai]]

[[Image:Sakurai Three Heroes of Three Kingdoms.jpg|thumb|Three Heroes of Three Kingdoms by Sekkan Sakurai]]

'''Painting''' (絵画) is one of the oldest Japanese art, and the most popular one. Main Painting Schools are: Suibokuga, Kanō, Rimpa, Tosa-ha, Nanga and Shijo. It has been influenced by [[Chinese]] art and [[Zen Buddhism]], as well as by Western art.   

'''Painting''' (絵画) is one of the oldest Japanese art, and the most popular one. Main Painting Schools are: Suibokuga, Kanō, Rimpa, Tosa-ha, Nanga and Shijo. It has been influenced by [[Chinese]] art and [[Zen Buddhism]], as well as by Western art.   

Katsushika Hokusai was celebrated as a great print designer, book illustrator, and painter. His works had a deep and lasting effect not only on Japanese art but also on modern Western art. Hokusai was the first Japanese printmaker who endeavored to show the spectrum of human types and experiences in his work, and he was also the first to produce a significant series of pure landscape prints. [http://www.lacma.org/japaneseart/prints/hokusai.htm]  

Katsushika Hokusai was celebrated as a great print designer, book illustrator, and painter. His works had a deep and lasting effect not only on Japanese art but also on modern Western art. Hokusai was the first Japanese printmaker who endeavored to show the spectrum of human types and experiences in his work, and he was also the first to produce a significant series of pure landscape prints. [http://www.lacma.org/japaneseart/prints/hokusai.htm]  

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== See also ==

== See also ==

*[[Gallery of Japanese Painting]]

*[[Gallery of Japanese Painting]]

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