Japanese art

Side trip: Japanese art from Jōmon pottery via the Buddhist temples, Zen, samurai culture and the tea ceremony to the ukiyo-e woodblock prints that changed European painting.

• Jōmon: the world's oldest pottery
• Yayoi and Kofun: rice, bronze and burial mounds
• Asuka and Nara: the arrival of Buddhism
• Heian: the refined world of the court
• Kamakura: the samurai and the sword
• Muromachi: Zen, ink and the tea ceremony
• Momoyama: gold, castles and the art of tea
• Edo: the floating world
• Modern Japan