

As with calligraphy, the most popular materials for paintings are paper and silk.
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Sakai published a series of 100 woodcut prints based on paintings by Kōrin, and his painting Summer and Autumn Grasses (夏 Natsu akikusa-zu) is painted on the back of Kōrin's Wind and Thunder Gods screen and is now at the Tokyo National Museum.Two of his most famous works include the folding screens Wind and Thunder Gods (風 Fūjin Raijin-zu), located in Kennin-ji temple in Kyoto, and Matsushima (松) at the Freer Gallery in Washington, DC.Kōetsu's collaborator, Tawaraya Sōtatsu, maintained an atelier in Kyoto and produced commercial paintings such as decorative fans and folding screens.Rinpa artists worked in various formats, notably screens, fans, hanging scrolls, woodblock printed books, lacquerware, ceramics, and kimono textiles.

Rinpa School Painting in the Edo Period.Bronze, gold, silver, rhinoceros horn, Chinese silk, ivory, lacquer, cloisonne enamel, and many other materials had specialist artists working in them.Native Chinese religions do not typically use cult images of deities, and large religious sculptures are nearly all Buddhist, dating mostly from the 4th to the 14th century CE and arriving via the Silk Road.Much of what is known of early Chinese figure painting comes from burial sites, where paintings were preserved on silk banners, lacquered objects, and tomb walls.The finished work can be mounted on hanging scrolls or handscrolls traditional painting can also be done on album sheets, walls, lacquerware, folding screens, and other media.Traditional painting involves essentially the same techniques as calligraphy it is done with a brush dipped in black or colored ink and painted on paper or silk.While prints were generally made in one color (monochrome) or two, they could also be painted by hand after printing.Another method is called 'reduction printing' and employs the use of one block to print several layers of color.In both Japanese and European woodcuts, black ink prints were generally used for book illustrations, while color was reserved for single-leaf prints.


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