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Japanese art at AllExperts (6375 words) |
 | The earliest complex art in Japan was produced in the 7th and 8th centuries AD in connection with Buddhism. |
| The shogunate survived until 1867, when it was forced to capitulate because of its failure to deal with pressure from Western nations to open the country to foreign trade. |
| The performing arts, however, were generally held in less esteem, and the purported immorality of actresses of the early Kabuki theater caused the Tokugawa government to bar women from the stage; female roles in Kabuki and Noh thereafter were played by men. |
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