As life in Japan became more chaotic, Buddhism gained popularity, and along with that Indian religion spread a shift in preferences toward more vital, realistic art, including celebrations of rigorous samurai virtues and depictions of Buddhas. It continues in 1185 with the Kamakura period, whose brewing sociopolitical turmoil intensified in the subsequent Nanbokucho period, which began in 1333.

This is the beginning of the story of Japanese art as told in the half-hour-long Behind the Masterpiece video above. In the Heian period, which began in 794, a new aristocratic class arose, and with it a new form of art: Yamato-e, an elegant painting style dedicated to the depiction of Japanese landscapes, poetry, history, and mythology, usually on folding screens or scrolls (the best known of which illustrates The Tale of Genji, known as the first novel ever written). In fact, the period’s very name comes from the patterns its potters created by pressing twisted cords into clay, resulting in a predecessor of the “wave patterns” that have been much used since. A century-spanning campaign charges players with strategically managing the economic, civil, religious and military arms of their empire.The earliest known works of Japanese art date from the Jōmon period, which lasted from 10,500 to 300 BC.Command warrior-tested legions in cinematic epic battles with thousands of soldiers on-screen at once.

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