日本の文化や歴史、社会情勢について英語で紹介 [日英対訳]

日本画を“日本語”と“英語”で説明すると?

日本画

日本画は、日本家屋に飾る絵としてふさわしく、その愛好者も多い。絹地または和紙の上に毛筆で、墨や岩絵具(群青・緑青・黄土などの鉱物を砕いたもの)を膠(にかわ)などで溶いて画く。

日本の絵画は、当初仏画として中国から伝わったが、10世紀ごろになると日本の風景や風俗も描かれるようになり、大和絵が発生して日本画の基礎が築かれた。

水墨画は、禅宗とともに中国からもたらされ、15世紀ごろには、日本画としても独自の発達をとげた。墨の濃淡を用い、簡素・素朴で暗示的な表現を特徴としている。

その後、水墨画に大和絵の手法を取り入れるなどいろいろな変遷をたどり、さらに近代以降は油絵の影響も受けて、現代の日本画に至っている。・・・

Japanese Painting

Japanese-style paintings are suitable for the traditional Japanese house, and thus have many devotees. Japanese paintings are done on silk or Japanese paper with a brush, using sumi and natural mineral pigments (pulverized lapis lazuli, malachite, ocher, etc.) dissolved in liquid glue, etc.

The Japanese style of painting has its origin in Buddhist painting introduced from China. From this beginning, there had, by around the tenth century, evolved the yamato-e painting style which dealt with Japanese scenes and themes. This style served as the foundation for what has come to be known as “Japanese painting.”

The black-and-white suiboku-ga style came into Japan from China together with Zen Buddhism and became established as an independent art form in about the fifteenth century. The suiboku-ga of that time were characterized by an allusive mode of expression that, based on lines and shades of sumi, was simple and unsophisticated.

Before reaching its present form, this style of painting underwent considerable change and development through the adoption of Yamatoe techniques and under various other influences such as modern oil painting. ...