The journey

Six contact eras. Not one Western clock. Region clocks stay separate. Full essays are open.

Most premodern works are unsigned workshops. Women belong in the main index, not a sidebar. Named artists live in the Artists encyclopedia.

Earth, vessel, and rite. Before the long path of image.

Belief takes form. Paths and figures travel by hand and eye.

Workshops, courts, and canons set the measure of beauty.

Cities press ink. Faiths and trades share the same streets.

Empire, rupture, and new mirrors. Makers answer the break.

After flags and partitions. Living artists claim the next line.

Paths

Thematic walks beside the eras.

Stone, moss, water, measured light.

Cherry blossom as seasonal clock.

Archipelago light and long horizons.