EditorialThe Shohei Bridge Over the Kanda River and a Confucian Temple, from the series One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo. Date: ninth month 1857. Dimensions: 34 cm x 22 cm.
EditorialThe Shohei Bridge Over the Kanda River and a Confucian Temple, from the series One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo. Date: ninth month 1857. Dimensions: 34 cm x 22 cm.
EditorialThe Shohei Bridge Over the Kanda River and a Confucian Temple, from the series One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo. Date: ninth month 1857. Dimensions: 34 cm x 22 cm.
Editorial'The Great Renunciation', painting on hemp cloth, Korean, Choson dynasty, early 18th century. Although Korea was a strict Confucian state during the Choson dynasty (1392-1910), by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Buddhism became less oppressed a...
Editorial??????, Chinese General Guan Yu (Kan?u), Edo period (1615?1868), 18th century, Japan, Ivory, H. 5 in. (12.7 cm); W. 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm); D. 1 in. (2.5 cm), Netsuke, This exquisite carving depicts general Guan Yu (d. 220), the epitome of Confucian virtue...
EditorialThe Shohei Bridge Over the Kanda River and a Confucian Temple, from the series One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo. Date: ninth month 1857. Dimensions: 34 cm x 22 cm.
EditorialWoodcut portrait of the Confucian historian Sima Qian (c.145 - 87 BC). Sancai tuhui, a Chinese Ming dynasty encylopaedia. 1609. Source: Chin F.633, Box 2, volume 3. Language: Chinese.
EditorialRighteousness (Two Boy Prostitutes Seated by a Candle) (from an untitled series of the Five Confucian Virtues), 1767. Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1724-1770). Color woodblock print; overall: 36.6 x 21.6 cm (14 7/16 x 8 1/2 in.).
EditorialThe Shohei Bridge Over the Kanda River and a Confucian Temple, from the series One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo. Date: ninth month 1857. Dimensions: 34 cm x 22 cm.
EditorialThe Shohei Bridge Over the Kanda River and a Confucian Temple, from the series One Hundred Views of Famous Places in Edo. Date: ninth month 1857. Dimensions: 34 cm x 22 cm.
EditorialWoodcut portrait of the Confucian historian Sima Qian (c.145 - 87 BC). Sancai tuhui, a Chinese Ming dynasty encylopaedia. 1609. Source: Chin F.633, Box 2, volume 3. Language: Chinese.
Editorial??????????????, Outer Robe (Uchikake) with Scenes of Filial Piety, Edo period (1615?1868), late 18th?early 19th century, Japan, Resist-dyed and painted silk crepe, embroidered with silk and metallic thread, Overall: 68 3/4 x 49 in. (174.6 x 124.5 cm), ...
EditorialDaoist Immortal, probably Laozi (??), Five Dynasties period (907?60), 10th century, China, High-leaded bronze, H. 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm); W. 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm), Sculpture, This sculpture epitomizes the merging of religious and secular imagery in later Ch...
Editorial??????, Chinese General Guan Yu (Kan?u), Edo period (1615?1868), 18th century, Japan, Ivory, H. 5 in. (12.7 cm); W. 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm); D. 1 in. (2.5 cm), Netsuke, This exquisite carving depicts general Guan Yu (d. 220), the epitome of Confucian virtue...
Editorial'The Great Renunciation', painting on hemp cloth, Korean, Choson dynasty, early 18th century. Although Korea was a strict Confucian state during the Choson dynasty (1392-1910), by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Buddhism became less oppressed a...