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| Kano Eitoku. Flowers and Birds of the Four Seasons. Muromachi Period (1566s/1580s). 14 s,iding door panels and 2 wall paintings. Ink, light color, gold paint on paper. Jukoin, Kyoto |
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| Muqi. Guanyin, Crane, and Gibbons. Chinese, Southern Sung period. Triptych of three hanging scrolls. Ink on silk. Daitokuji. Second half 13th c. |
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| Yamaguchi Akira, Tokyo: Roppongi Hills. 2002. Pen, watercolor on paper. |
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| Painter unknown. "Machida Screens". Muromachi Period, early 16th c. Pair of 6-panel folding screens. Ink, color, and gold on paper. National Museum of Japanese History, Chiba. |
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| Kano Eitoku. The "Uesugi Screens". Muromachi period, ca. 1550 or 1564. Pair of 6-panel folding screens. Ink, color, and gold leaf on paper. Yonezawa City Museum. Given to the warrior Uesugi Kenshin by the military ruler Oda Nobunga. |
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| Rokuonji, the "Temple of the Golden Pavilion." 14th c. reconstructed 1951. |
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| Illustration of the Long Sword named "Kogarasu-maru" and its mounting components in Collected Antiquities in Ten Categories. 1800 |
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| Himeji Castle. (Begun 1851; Hyogo Prefecture) "White Heron Castle" |
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| Matsue Castle. 1611. "Black Raven" castle. |
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| Matsumoto Castle. 1596; Nagano Prefecture |
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| Sen Rikyu (1522-1591): formative figure in the development of Wabi-style Tea. Merchant from the city of Sakai, tea master to the warlords Nobunga and Hideyoshi. |
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| Wabi-style tea: tea style codified by Rikyu and others that takes as its aesthetic basis the search for beauty in the imperfect, unpretentious, rustic and austere. |
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| Toriawase: Principle of joining multiple utensils, visual, or poetic images, etc. to form larger synthetic wholes and/or stimulating juxtapositions often linked to season, annual observances, unique events. |
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| "One time, one meeting" of the host and guests |
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| "Oil-spot Tenmoku" Bowl. Chinese, Southern Song Dynasty (12-13th c), Fujian. Kyushu National Museum. |
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| "Ido-style" Bowl. Named "Kizaemon" 16th century, Choson period, Korea. Kohoan, Daitokuji, Kyoto. |
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| Raku Ware Teabowl. Momoyama period, 16-17th c. Tokyo National Museum. |
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| Teabowl. Named "Shishi" (Lion). By Raku Ryonyu (1756-1834). Edo period, late 18th-early 19th c. Earthenware with Black Raku and colorless glazes. Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. |
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| Shino Ware teabowl. Known as "Hashihime". Azuchi-Momyama-Edo period. 16th-17th c. Tokyo National Museum. |
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| the rustic "hut" that serves as the ideal setting for tea in Wabi-style tea |
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| Taian. Late 16th c. Teahouse said to have been designed by Rikyu. Oyamazaki, SW of Kyoto. |
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| Tosa Mitsunobu, Views of Katata. Folding screen. Ink, light color on paper. Originally painted for Daitokuji subtemple in Kyoto. Now in a museum in Seikado Bunko, Tokyo. |
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| Azuchi Castle, east of Kyoto. 1579-1582. |
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