The earliest examples of pictorial arts in Japan are designs engraved on prehistoric tombs. Buddhism was introduced in the 6th century A. D., and by the 7th century the techniques and iconography of the Asiatic mainland had been assimilated; witness the decorations of the Hōryū-ji temple at Nara, while the 8th – century screen paintings and miniatures in the imperial treasure of the Shōsō-in prove that the Japanese painters of the Nara Period could match the subtlest refinements of classical Chinese painting.
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