JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES

October-December 2009 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume I., Issue 4.
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Introduction
BÉRCZI, Szaniszló
Ancient Art of Eastern-Asia
Example issue from the Coloring Booklet Series of Eurasian Arts 1
The new booklet of the Eurasian arts series displays a selection from the East-Asian Art 2 . As we did in
the earlier exhibitions our collection focuses on the cultural layers emerging from the ancient times.
Japan, China, Korea, Mandsuria and Mongolia are the modern names of the countries, which we visit.
However, the ancient Andronovo, Hun-Scythian (Xiongnu), the later Türkish and Mongolian are the
basic layers of the steppe regions, the cultures during the Xia, Shang, Chou, Ch’in, and Han dynasties in
China, and the Yayoi and Kofun archaeological and cultural layers of the ancient Japan are those basic
periods that we study in this collection. These layers stratify and interact, the shapes and colors change
in these far eastern cultural landscapes.
Fig. 1. The front cover of the coloring booklet: Ancient Art of Eastern-Asia (2000 years old ceramics
from Korea, Soul, and detail from the exhibition in the Museum of Ancient Izumo, Japan, displaying a
horseman from the 6 th century A. D.).
1 The complete series can be accessed in electronic format at: http://www.federatio.org/tkte.html
2 Published in August 2009 in Budapest.
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