Japan has a long, varied art tradition, but it is particularly celebrated for its ceramicsāit has one of the oldest pottery practices in the worldāand for its paintings on hanging scroll, folded screen, folding-fans, and fusuma (sliding door or walls); its calligraphy; its woodblock prints, especially those of the ukiyo-e genre (āpictures of the floating worldā); its timber-frame architecture; its lacquerware; its jade carving; its textiles; and its metalwork.
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