Japanese Art is known as a decorative art that has a breath of originality and stand for it`s own style. before it was discovered this style there was the Palaeolithic culture . In this style there wasn't any evidence , there was only artifacts of Neolithic people. Japan was occupied by these people until the 19 century.
The Dolmen Period :
This period had began earlier than the second century as there originality were drove to northward, agriculture and administration. In Korea they found toms and few had been opened. They found bronze swords, mirrors, iron swords and more. Near the most important tombs they made used to make cylinders made with ceramics , and the top they used to have figures of men or animals that reflects Japanese art. During this period they also discovered ideographs and Korean syllabary in Japan. Trough the end of this period Japan had relations with one of the three kingdoms of korea and by this the first Buddhist reached Japan.
The Asuka Period :548-645
This period is named for the area near Nara were the court introduced Buddhism. It was a new religion that had different ideas, meanings and images. It also incorporate Chinese writing, history, coins and more, these had a very high impact trough society aspects of Japanese.
Till the eighth century there had been changes in the thrones and more taxes had been added to the people form a new emperor. He was a Chinese emperor and by constructing large temples this was the most active period trough the county. The capital city was removed after 3/4 of a century and Nara was built and it has an enormous cost.
The Nara Period : 645-793
Before this period there had been a lot of changes every time the capital was moved. So in 710 there was a an emperor that had been there for 77 years. This period there was more peace in china and there where frequently reactions with Chinese court. Buddhism had influence on the arts, including sculpture, painting, and lacquerware. It was during this period, in 752, that a great bronze image of Buddha was made in the Temple in Nara. It is the largest Buddha statue in Japan. Also during this period they developed new techniques of Japanese art. 
The Heian Period : 794-1184
In the 794 , the capital city was moved to Heiankyo[Kyoto]. In this period fashion had more importance in the new streets. Trough this period there was a lot of peace and the noble people had the chance to experiment more in arts and in there culture because they didn't used to take interest. There where also new ideas in Japan that came mainly from china and become Japanese culture. For the first time writing in Japanese system was legal in the culture , one of them is Tale of Genji and PillowBook , these where the most popular.
The Kamakura Period : 1185-1337
Trough this period there where some influence from the attitude in art . Two of these are a development in Kamukura art, one is developed from old fashioned art and the other from Sung art late in the twelfth century. Here we can see the difference by Unkei style to vivid work trough realism.The last sculpture was made in this period of a school.The Buddhist art also changes there style and become more similar to the Japanese art, they represent naturalistic and divinities art. They used to make portrait in a very free way that was influenced from Sung art.
This period had introduced the ceramic work into Japan and one of the most important was Dogen that after was known as Toshiro.
The Muromachi and Momoyama Period : 1336-1598
When the kamakura government fall and changed for a long time they accepted Muromachi in Kyoto in 1336. He used to build villas like Golden and Silver pavilion, Temples and big garden, which is the most attraction nowadays.This was also a time of new cultures with flower arranging and most of all landscapes landscape gardening.
The Edo Period : 1603-1868
In this period the art work in sculptures used to be repetitive , with an out standing design like the work of Hidari Jingoro that is in Nikko. In paintings the Kano school continued to be built but it lost the design of originality. Also in this period there was three brothers that used to work in pottery and Lacquer. These used to look trough Honami Koestu.
The furniture in this period was becoming more elaborate with designs and new techniques. They began to use a cast bronze with a Chinese manner. They were taking a lot of influence from European color prints.
After 1868 the Japanese art began to influence Europe and had influence from the Western Impact and the Industrial Revolution.
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Asuka and Nara Periods (538–794) | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2013. Asuka and Nara Periods (538–794) | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/asna/hd_asna.htm. [Accessed 18 May 2013].
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