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Meaning of "nihonga" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF NIHONGA

nihonga  [nɪˈhɒŋɡə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NIHONGA

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determiner
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Nihonga is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES NIHONGA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

nihonga

Nihonga

Nihonga or literally "Japanese-style paintings" are paintings that have been made in accordance with traditional Japanese artistic conventions, techniques and materials. While based on traditions over a thousand years old, the term was coined in the Meiji period of the Imperial Japan, to distinguish such works from Western-style paintings, or Yōga.

Definition of nihonga in the English dictionary

The definition of nihonga in the dictionary is the traditional Japanese style of painting, using traditional materials and techniques.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NIHONGA


anger
ˈæŋɡə
araponga
ˌærəˈpɒŋɡə
conga
ˈkɒŋɡə
conger
ˈkɒŋɡə
donga
ˈdɒŋɡə
finger
ˈfɪŋɡə
Ganga
ˈɡʌŋɡə
hunger
ˈhʌŋɡə
linger
ˈlɪŋɡə
longa
ˈlɒŋɡə
longer
ˈlɒŋɡə
manga
ˈmæŋɡə
Mpumalanga
mˈpʌmɑːlɑːŋɡə
Rarotonga
ˌrɛərəˈtɒŋɡə
sangar
ˈsʌŋɡə
tanga
ˈtæŋɡə
tonga
ˈtɒŋɡə
Tsonga
ˈtsɒŋɡə
wonga
ˈwɒŋɡə
Zamboanga
ˌzæmbəʊˈæŋɡə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NIHONGA

nigrosin
nigrosine
NIH
NIHE
nihil
nihil obstat
nihilism
nihilist
nihilistic
nihility
Nihon
NII
Niigata
Nijinsky
Nijmegen
Nikaria
nikau
nikau palm
Nike
nikethamide

WORDS THAT END LIKE NIHONGA

Alba Longa
Albury-Wodonga
boonga
Bucaramanga
changa
chimichanga
gringa
kanga
linga
ongaonga
pa´anga
panga
ponga
ranga
renga
sanga
taonga
Tauranga
whoonga
wonga-wonga

Synonyms and antonyms of nihonga in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «nihonga» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NIHONGA

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The translations of nihonga from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «nihonga» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

nihonga
570 millions of speakers

English

nihonga
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

nihonga
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نيهونجا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

нихонга
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

nihonga
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

nihonga
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

nihonga
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Nihonga
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

nihonga
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

日本画
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

nihonga
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nihonga
85 millions of speakers
vi

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nihonga
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

nihonga
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निहंगा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

nihonga
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

nihonga
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nihonga
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ніхонга
40 millions of speakers

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nihonga
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Nihonga
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

nihonga
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

nihonga
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nihonga
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of nihonga

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NIHONGA»

The term «nihonga» is normally little used and occupies the 131.436 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NIHONGA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «nihonga» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «nihonga» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about nihonga

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NIHONGA»

Discover the use of nihonga in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to nihonga and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Nihonga: Transcending the Past : Japanese-Style Painting, ...
Nihonga is an art form which merges Japanese tradition and Western influences.
Ellen P. Conant, 1995
2
Refracted Modernity: Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial ...
Therefore, when the colonizers expected Taiwanese artists to produce tōyōga in line with nihonga, it often stagnated, unable to go beyond basic and detailed techniques of realism. Without the leadership of great masters past and present, ...
Yko Kikuchi, 2007
3
Living in Color: The Art of Hideo Date
Two painting styles and two charismatic thinkers would have a tremendous impact: nihonga, as transmitted through the teachings of Kawabata Gyokusho, and the Synchro- mism of Stanton Macdon aid- Wright. Date heartily acknowledges the ...
Karin M. Higa, 2001
4
Tokyo A Cultural History
The Nihonga School A dual process of assimilation and subordination of western influences was taking place in painting. Cultural preferences were evident in the way artists affiliated themselves with either the western styles of painting (yoga), ...
Stephen Mansfield, 2009
5
Collected Writings of J. Thomas Rimer
34 (May 1976): 69. 10. Quoted in Iwasaki Yoshikazu, 'Gendai bijutsu to shite no Nihonga' (Nihonga As Contemporary Art) in Gendai Nihonga ten (Contemporary Nihonga Exhibition), exh. cat. (Tokyo: Nihon Keizei Shinbunsha, 1990): n.p. 11.
J. Thomas Rimer, 2004
6
Modern Japanese Art and the Meiji State: The Politics of Beauty
... relatives) samurai [commoner] Yokoyama taikan nihonga 1868– 1958 ibaraki retainer of the Mito fief bakufu (three major families) samurai [commoner] shimomura Kanzan nihonga 1873– 1930 Wakayama Kōryū school small drum player for ...
Dōshin Satō, 2011
7
Radicals And Realists in the Japanese Nonverbal Arts: The ...
4fi Instead of thinking of Nihonga as essentially Japanese painting, it is more useful to see it as owing debts to European neoclassicism and, to a degree, the postimpressionists. Like all the arts in post-1945 Japan, Nihonga was a product of ...
Thomas R. H. Havens, 2006
8
Making Japanese Heritage
Rather, it points towards the deliberate support required by nihonga departments in Japanese art universities and the nihonga groups of artists to perpetuate an idea that their work distils the essence of Japanese art. This is a concept which is  ...
Christoph Brumann, Rupert A. Cox, 2009
9
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture
356 Nihonjinron tween tradition and innovation inevitably marked the evolution of Nihonga, artists struggled to pay balanced attention to their own East Asian heritage and the expressive possibilities in Western painting. In practice, Nihonga ...
Sandra Buckley, 2006
10
Painting Circles: Tsuchida Bakusen and Nihonga Collectives ...
This volume explores the practice of Nihonga painter Tsuchida Bakusen (1997-1936), and his professional strategy for developing an independent artistic identity, one that emphasized the central role played by tradition in the invention and ...
John Szostak, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NIHONGA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term nihonga is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Nihonga-In Exhibition at JACCC
The first U.S. exhibition by Nihonga-In, a Japanese painting group, is going on through Sunday, July 26, at the Japanese American Cultural ... «The Rafu Shimpo, Jul 15»
2
'FaceTime is better than real life'
At Tokyo University of the Arts he studied Nihonga, a traditional Japanese painting technique, but by the late 1980s, Murakami had begun to ... «gulfnews.com, Jul 15»
3
Review: 'Jellyfish Eyes,' a Children's Film From Takashi Murakami
After all, Mr. Murakami is a polymath trained in anime as well as in Nihonga, Japan's rigorous traditional painting style, and has been moving ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
4
Takashi Murakami : "FaceTime est meilleur que la vie réelle"
À l'Université des Arts de Tokyo, il a étudié le Nihonga, une technique traditionnelle de peinture japonaise, mais à la fin des années 1980, ... «Le nouvel Economiste, Jul 15»
5
A 16th-century Japanese mandala of stars and planets joins …
The work combines traditional and modernist elements in the Nihonga style, in which Setsuden blended the naturalism of 18th-century ... «cleveland.com, Jun 15»
6
Japanese Art: Impact of Paris Upon Yasui Sotaro
Also, traditional Nihonga techniques fused naturally with realism and other thought patterns that he studied in France. sotaro10-1. Notable art ... «Modern Tokyo Times, Jun 15»
7
A dazzling good cause
... of provocative writer Daisy Wong, and a Japanese “Nihonga” painting with diamond adornments by award-winning jeweller Karen Lee. «South China Morning Post, May 15»
8
Interview: Koei Shiraishi, Director of Whitestone Gallery
... before diversifying its business into Japanese nihonga painting starting in the late 80s, and contemporary art from the year 2000 onwards. «Artinfo UK, May 15»
9
Diversity saved the Kano school
... that their artistic centrality began to wane, though it became the basis of modern Japanese-style painting (nihonga), particularly in Tokyo. «The Japan Times, Apr 15»
10
Kittredge Gallery's new show offers meditation on the art of Makoto …
Yet he's also about the process, using traditional Nihonga materials (handmade paper, mineral pigments, animal-skin glue, sumi ink) and ... «TheNewsTribune.com, Mar 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Nihonga [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/nihonga>. Apr 2024 ».
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