What does Japanese art look like?
That depends on what period your talking about. Early Japanese Art looks like landscaping and mythology mythology: http://animewriter.files.wordpress.com/2… Landscape: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollec… The later Japanese art looks more like this: http://www.capel.nl/catalog/images/Clois… and this: http://www.theartofjapan.com/ArtDetail.
OK, I think you need to search Hokusai and Hiroshige, two Japanese masters in painting and woodblock printing (ukiyo-e). Their work is amazing, and you’ll probably recognise Hokusai’s “Great Wave off Kanagawa” (Google it), as the design’s really famous and has been used and changed in all sorts of things (eg. the design on the front of Michael Morpurgo’s “Kensuke’s Kingdom” is based on this piece). Their methods are also really interesting, they all had about ten assistants each, to cut the wood blocks, do the printing, cut the wood again, do some more printing… They designed the pictures themselves, of course.
