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East Asian art and architecture

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Dehua porcelain

Dehua porcelain (德化白瓷) is white porcelain made at kilns in Dehua County, Fujian, China, known for Ming dynasty ivory-white sculpture that Europeans named blanc de Chine.

Eight Friends of Zhushan

The Eight Friends of Zhushan (珠山八友) were a group of porcelain painters in Jingdezhen, China, who formed a society in 1928 and created the new famille rose style.

Kan'ei reconstruction of Nikkō Tōshō-gū

The Kan'ei reconstruction (寛永の大造替, Kan'ei no daizōtai) was the 1634–1636 rebuilding of Nikkō Tōshō-gū, Tokugawa Ieyasu's mausoleum shrine, by shogun Iemitsu, creating the lavishly decorated complex that stands today.

Konjikidō

Konjikidō (金色堂), or Hikaridō, is a gilded funerary hall at Chūson-ji temple in Hiraizumi, Japan, completed in 1124 by Fujiwara no Kiyohira as a mausoleum for his family.

Korean temple bells

Korean temple bells (범종, beomjong) are large cast bronze bells hung in Korean Buddhist temples to call the community and announce the time, a style set by Unified Silla bells of 725 and 771.

Makuzu Kōzan

Makuzu Kōzan (宮川香山, 1842–1916), born Miyagawa Toranosuke, was a Japanese potter who founded the Makuzu kiln in Yokohama in 1871, known for high-relief decoration and Makuzu ware, a leading Meiji export ceramic.

Maple Leaves

Maple Leaves (紅葉, momiji) are the red autumn foliage of Japanese maples, a central motif in Japanese seasonal culture and painting from the sixteenth century onward.

Murō-ji Five-story Pagoda

The Murō-ji Five-story Pagoda (室生寺五重塔) is an early Heian period wooden pagoda at Murō-ji temple in Uda, Nara Prefecture, Japan, the smallest five-story pagoda standing outdoors in the country.

Negoro-ji

Negoro-ji (根來寺) is a Buddhist temple in Iwade, Wakayama, Japan, and head temple of the Shingi Shingon school; burned in 1585, its 1547 Great Pagoda survives as a National Treasure.

Phoenix Hall

Phoenix Hall (鳳凰堂, Hōōdō) is the Amida Hall of Byōdō-in temple in Uji, Kyoto, Japan, built in 1053 by regent Fujiwara no Yorimichi, housing Jōchō's Amida statue and depicted on the 10-yen coin.

Sue ware

Sue ware (須恵器, sueki) is a hard, gray, unglazed high-fired pottery produced in Japan from the early 5th century to the Heian period, fired in anagama kilns above 1000 °C.

Tangut Buddhist art

Tangut Buddhist art is the Buddhist painting, sculpture, and printed art of the Tangut-ruled Western Xia state (1038–1227) in northwestern China, fusing Chinese, Tibetan, Uyghur, and Indian elements, best known from Khara-Khoto and the Dunhuang caves.

Wangchuan Villa

Wangchuan Villa (辋川别业) was the Tang dynasty country estate of the poet-painter Wang Wei in Lantian County, Shaanxi, where he wrote the Wangchuan Collection with Pei Di.

Yellow Crane Tower

Yellow Crane Tower (黄鹤楼) is a tower on Snake Hill in Wuhan, China, first built in 223 AD and subject of Cui Hao's celebrated Tang poem.