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Location: Tokyo National Museum

Dogū, Jōmon period, 1000–400 B.C.E., earthenware, excavated Rokugo ishinadate, Misato-cho, Akita (Tokyo National Museum) — Made in early Japan before we have any written records, these intricately decorated ceramics leave much to mystery

Deep bowl and Dogū, Jōmon period

by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker

Hills (detail), Sesshu Toyo, Winter Landscape, c. 1470, ink on paper, 18 x 11 1/2 inches (Tokyo National Museum, Japan) — Nature is often used as a metaphor for all elements of our world—natural and human.

Nature: spotlight — Sesshu Toyo’s Winter Landscape

by Dr. Asa Simon Mittman

Detail, Haniwa: Tomb Sculpture of a Seated Warrior, Japan, late Tumulus period, c. 500-600 C.E., coil-built eathenware with applied decoration, 31 x 14 3/8 x 15 inches / 78.7 x 36.5 x 38.1 cm (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) — These expressive funerary objects evolved from simple clay cylinders into animal, human, and building forms.

Haniwa Warrior

by Dr. Yoko Hsueh Shirai