Agnes F. Northrop for Tiffany Studios, "Garden Landscape" (1912), three-part window for Linden Hall, leaded Favrile glass, 124 × 246 inches (all images courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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In this 1835 print, Life of Nichiren: A Vision of Prayer on the Waves, Utagawa Kuniyoshi depicts a scene from Nichiren’s biography where the sacred daimoku appears at sea. | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Henry L. Phillips Collection

Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824 - 1904), Bashi-Bazouk, 1868-69, oil on canvas; Metropolitan Museum of Art.

"On a trip to Japan with Henry Adams in 1886, La Farge enlisted watercolor - the familiar medium of the traveling artist - to create studies for illustrations and to paint sheets for exhibition. He executed this bold and monumental composition after his return to New York, using a watercolor sketch done during his travels as well as photographs that he and Adams had taken. The Daibutsu, or Great Buddha, a fifty-foot-high bronze cast in 1252, is renowned for its colossal size, its peaceful demeanor, and its unusual site in the open air surrounded by mountains and trees."

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