{"id":474797,"date":"2026-02-14T16:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T16:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/474797\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T16:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T16:35:10","slug":"a-brief-history-of-japanese-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/474797\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of Japanese Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know I probably say this every time I post videos like this, but I wish I\u2019d gotten into art &amp; art history earlier than I did. Channels like Behind the Masterpiece are so good at making this stuff come alive and their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iT_1Gj5VPP0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brief History of Japanese Art<\/a> scratches my recent interest in Japan itch quite nicely. I was lucky to see some of the pieces from the video on my Japan trip last fall, including the Big Buddha in Kamakura, hand scrolls, sumi-e, and so many woodblock prints. (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2023\/06\/a-brief-history-of-japanese-art-from-prehistoric-pottery-to-yayoi-kusama-in-half-an-hour.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">open culture<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I know I probably say this every time I post videos like this, but I wish I\u2019d gotten&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-474797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}