8th century, a large number of works in the mature High-Tang style were The 35th !CANAS Panel : (Seminer) "The Issue of Japanization" J apanization in Painting : From the Ancient to the Medieval Period Akiyama Terukazu (Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University) Aside from the primitive depictions of humans and animals on bronze bells from the Y ayoi period (the prehistoric age), and the tomb wall paintings from the Ko-fun period (the protohistoric age), the introduction of basic painting tecthiques to Japan did not begin until the late of 6th century. Those techniques accompa-nied the importation of Buddhism from China, via the Korean peninsula. Through the 7th century, direct contact with the Chinese continent was possible and gradually Chinese paintings styles, spanning the Sui to early T'ang period, began to be produced by artists in Japan. Artifacts that survive today from the Main Hall of Horyuji temple demonstrate rapid progress. Between, for example, the pedestal of the Shaka Triad and the paintings deco-rating the Tamamushi shrine, which date from the mid-7th centuries, to the wall paintings from Horyuji's Main Hall, which date from the late 7th-century. In the brought to the capital in Nara. This Tang style and its technique was then mas-tered by Japanese painters. These artists were affiliated with the official painting bureau and charged with the decoration of government-sponsored temples and the production of accessories for the court. Painting examples preserved today in the Shosoin allow us to theorise about the development of their technique. Tang Dynasty-style painting continued to dominate in the early 9th century, even after the transfer of the capital from Nara (Heijokyo), to Kyoto, or He-iankyo, in 794, and painters were included in the large-scale Japanese embassy dispatched to China in 835. Although the paintings themselves do not survive, documentary evidence reveals that the subject matter of sliding-door and folding-screenpaintings adorning the imperial palace and aristocratic residence were of Chinese legends and poetry, or Chinese poems composed by Japanese, which was -679-
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