Momoyama

[ maw-maw-yah-mah ]

noun

1. Azuchi-Momoyama.

Example Sentences

Arakawa — the first to replicate such late 16th-century, Momoyama period styles as Oribe and Shino — is represented here by a classic Shino-type tea bowl, straight-sided, thick-walled, with a rounded lip and touches of iron oxide beneath a white glaze.

From New York Times

A magnificent painted screen from the Momoyama period, made around 1600, depicts the trade between “southern barbarians,” as the Portuguese were known, and Nagasaki, where a procession of newly arrived merchants includes a peacock, parrots and European hunting dogs.

From Washington Post

“When you don’t fight wars, it doesn’t exactly help the arms industry,” said Masahiro Matsumura, a professor at Momoyama Gakuin University who specializes in politics and national security.

From New York Times

Momoyama, style of art, 285 Monetary system, 381, 393.

From Project Gutenberg

A style in Japanese art, prevalent during and after the r�gime of Hideyoshi and called "the Momoyama" by recent connoisseurs had a striking resemblance to the Empire style, which followed the Rococo in Europe, and in some respects indeed the later Ashikaga period of our history might be likened to Europe of the eighteenth century, without gross inappropriateness, while at other points it might be compared to the Renaissance with equal fairness.

From Project Gutenberg