Welcome to "Japanese Phoenixes between the Momoyama (1568 - 1603) and Edo Periods (1603 - 1868)." This website was created to fulfill the requirements for Oregon University's Art History 607: Digital Art History course. For a summary of the goals of this webiste, please go to the About page. For an introduction to the primary artist of this wesite, please go to  Itō Jakuchū for a brief biography. For a summary of Jakuchū's most important and influential work, please go to the Colorful Realm of Living Beings. To access essays written to asses the Japanese phoenix, please go to the analyses exhibitions: The Phoenix Composed or Natural History and Naturalism. To view high resolution images and read basic bibliographical information of all the images included in these exhibitions, please go to Browse Items. Finally, for further research, please visit the Bibliography and Additional Sources page. 

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details for Natural History and Naturalism Exhibition

phoenix wings.jpg

details taken from "Phoenixes," Maruyama Ōkyo (円山 応挙, or 圓山 應舉) c. 1783 and Maruyama Ōkyo's old sketch books

details for the Natural History and Naturalism Exhibition

phoenix anatomical feet .jpg

details taken from Gary W. Kaiser "The Basic Arrangement of Toes in Birds" (The Inner Bird: Anatomy and Evolution, 2007), "Old Pine Tree and White…

details for the Natural History and Naturalism Exhibition

anatomical phoenix necks.jpg

details taken from Gary W. Kaiser "Two Different Methods of Lowering the Head in Extremely Long-Necked Birds" (The Inner Bird: Anatomy and Evolution,…