Himeji castle Himeji Sengoku Interiors Himeji castle Sengoku

Himeji castle, Himeji Sengoku

Interiors – Himeji castle Sengoku

Bridges at Uji, screen, silk on wood frame, Art Institute Chicago Sengoku

Southern Barbarian style lacquer - western Sengoku Dutch-style gin bottles Armor coat with Persian carpet design

Screen with images of Tale of Genji Sengoku

Kano school screen - geese Kano school screen - landscapes Sengoku

Toyotomi Hideyoshi Sengoku

Tea bowl and whisk Sengoku Sen Rikyu Founder of Modern tea

Sen Sotatsu 14 th – Hounsai Direct descendant of Rikyu Sen Sotatsu 15 th Current head of O-ura Sengoku

Flower vase by Sen Rikyu Tea bowl, whisk and scoop Tea caddy in silk bag Sengoku

Path to Tea house – Tea house entrance Sengoku

Formal style tea bowl - Chinese Rikyu style tea bowl - raku Bag for bowl Sengoku

Tea scoop Camellia – tea flowers Sengoku Tea house interior

Bronze tea kettle Ido style tea bowl - Hagi Sengoku

Tea sweets Sengoku

Kaiseki Tea meal Sengoku Lacquer bowls

Armor and battle formation – Sekigahara October 1608

Edo period fashionistas, screen fragment

Edo Travelling shrine with seven gods of fortune surrounding Benten

Kutani plate – foxes wedding Edo Lacquer ashtray and Dowry chest

Lacquer box - tebako Plates by Ogata Kenzan Edo

Rimpa school screen of cherry blossoms and river, seashore Edo

Screens of Thunder and Wind By Sotatsu – Rimpa school Edo

Fan screen Peacocks by Ito Jakuchu Edo

Edo Dragon rising up waterfall - scroll

Edo Warrior scene woodblock prints

Edo Advertisement of Kabuki actors – woodblock print

Bunraku puppets Kabuki Shibaraku Fuji Musume Edo

Edo Actor print by Sharaku

Embroidered and brocaded kimono Woodblock print of courtesans Edo

Shinto shrine before consrtuction Gate in the sea before Ise Jingu Shinto

Nachi waterfall and the shrine to the Nachi god Fuji – one of the premier kami of Japan Shinto

Shinto procession to a small shrine Shinto

Predominance of red and white in Shinto – garments and architecture Shinto

Red and white in food NB similarity to Japanese flag Shinto

Shinto Later shinto image of a kami – Buddhist iconographic influence