- Asian Art: Art History Resources on the Web
This very comprehensive site organizes links into 19 individual countries, ranging from Afghanistan to Vietnam.
- Asian Arts
Asianart includes both public and private institution exhibitions, with emphasis on China, Tibet, and Nepal. Also included are articles and links to resources for Asian art and culture.
- Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
The site for "one of the largest museums in the Western world devoted exclusively to Asian art." It features examples from the permanent collection.
- The Glory of Chinese Printing
Highlighting the significance of printing in China, this site explores its development from block printing to the invention of movable wood type, brass plates, and two-color techniques. Contains hundreds of images.
- The Floating World of Ukiyo-e: Shadows, Dreams, and Substance
Sponsored by the Library of Congress, this online exhibition presents the Japanese art form Ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating, or sorrowful, world"). Included are books, drawings, and prints from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries.
- Handbook for the Appreciation of Japanese Traditional Crafts
Covers a wide range of topics, such as ceramics, textiles, urushi art, metalwork, woodwork, bamboowork, kirikane, cloisonne, glass, gemstones, and ink stones. Included are definitions, history, photographs, and materials.
- Arts of Korea
The Arts of Korea Web site contains a wealth of information on Korean cultural properties in museums around the world. To introduce Korean arts and culture to a wider audience, the Foundation supports overseas museums in establishing Korean galleries, organizing special exhibitions on Korean art and various outreach programs.
- Kunisada and Kabuki
This site features Japanese woodblock print depictions of Kabuki actors by the artist Kunisada, later known as Toyokuni Utagawa. Developed during Japan's Edo period (1603-1868), woodblock printing was part of the "floating world" of pleasure ("ukiyo").
- Kyoto National Museum
Within “The Collection” is “Masterworks”-- a collection of multiple images of more than 100 of its finest works organized by Archaeology, Calligraphy, Ceramics, Textiles, Sculpture, Lacquerware, Paintings, and Metalwork categories. Furthermore, their online catalog contains over 10,000 images from its East Asian art collection.
- Madhubani Painting
"An on-line exhibit of folk paintings by women artists from the Mithila or Madhubani region of India." Includes an overview and some related resource links.
- The Sensuous and the Sacred: Chola Bronzes from South India
This online exhibition features an exhibit of the "temple bronzes cast a thousand years ago in the Tamil-speaking region of south India during the Chola dynasty." Included are slide shows and videos about the gods featured as well as steps explaining the process of wax to metal casting.
- Viewing Japanese Prints
Viewing Japanese Prints features overviews of the Ukiyo-e ("Pictures of the Floating World"), Shin Hanga ("New Prints"), and Sôsaku Hanga ("Creative Prints") traditions. Examples from the 17th through 20th centuries are included.
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