Joman Culture, Early Japan Joman culture was from 10,500 - 300 BC. This Timeline of Art History web gallery highlights six artworks that beautifully illustrate their unique "cord markings" style of pottery. The essay explains how the artworks were created.

The Creative Eye The Asia Society invited artists, architects and writers to select an item from their collection of Indian, Japanese, South East Asian and Chinese art then write comments about the art. Some of the texts are scholarly, some poetic, some personal and some all three. Choose some of the 75 artworks yourself and see if you and the commentator agree.

Tokyo National Museum Their collection can be viewed by type: sculpture, painting, calligraphy, and decorative arts or by region: Japan, China, Korea, India and Central Asia. They also have information about their current exhibits and what is now on display. You can enlarge the thumbnails to see great details.

The Arts of Asia explores Japanese, Chinese and Korean artworks. It has great background information on Buddhism and also includes a brief historical summary and maps as well as a feature on architecture.

Photographs of Kimbei Kusakabe from the New York Public Library Digital Gallery shows 100 prints from an 1888-1890 album with fascinating landscapes and portraits.

The Creative Eye The Asia Society invited artists, architects and writers to select an item from their collection of Indian, Japanese, South East Asian and Chinese art then write comments about the art. Some of the texts are scholarly, some poetic, some personal and some all three. Choose some of the 75 artworks yourself and see if you and the commentator agree.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a wonderful feature, the Timeline of Art History. There are hundreds of beautifully illustrated articles on special topics organized chronologically, or from the oldest to the newest, as art developed around the world. Here are topics and artworks of possible interest: