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‖ Yamato|jaˈmato|
[Jap., = ‘Japan’.]
1. The style or school of art in Japan which culminated in the 12th and 13th centuries and dealt with Japanese subjects in a distinctively Japanese (rather than Chinese) way. Usu. as Yamato-e († -we) [e picture]; also -ryū [-ryū style, orig. stream, school].
1879Trans. Asiatic Soc. Japan VII. 345 Motomitsu is spoken of as the originator of the Yamato-we. Ibid. 346 Takanobu was a pupil of the Yamato riu. 1880T. W. Cutler Gram. Jap. Ornament 5 In the thirteenth [century] was founded the Yamato, or Japanese school. 1911Encycl. Brit. XV. 174/1 It did not take shape as a school until the beginning of the 11th century..; it then became known as Yamato-ryū, a title which two centuries later was changed to that of Tosa, on the occasion of one of its masters..assuming that appellation as a family name. 1935K. Toda Jap. Scroll Painting ii. 19 Another important example of early Yamato-e is a series of wall paintings at Hōryūji. 1970Oxf. Compan. Art 607/2 The demand for a more refined art from the aristocratic society of Kyoto, combined with the decline of the T‘ang dynasty in China, encouraged the Japanese to incorporate more native elements in their art, especially in the picture scrolls..of the yamato-e style. 1980R. Illing Art Jap. Prints vi. 87 In the 1720s Okumura Masanobu and Shigenaga produced prints of landscape views, rather in the style of the older yamato-e album paintings, showing the Omi hakkei.
2. Yamato-damashii: the Japanese spirit.
1942R.A.F. Jrnl. 13 June 6/2 He will be filled with what is called yamato damashi [sic] or the pure spirit of Japan. 1957Encycl. Brit. XII. 954o/1 The Japanese..have been profoundly influenced by a specific type of ideology—sometimes known as Yamato Damashii (the soul of Japan), which was partly embodied in..the code of the warrior knight. 1974in A. Murakami Romanized Japanese (1979) 23 And there was no doubt then that the warrior code..Bushido..and the Japanese spirit..Yamato-damashii..steeled the Japanese soldier. |