Japanese Arts This chapter discusses the arts of Japan from the Jomon culture of 3000 B.C. through the Western influences of the late 19th century with emphasis on architecture. It chronicles the history of garden design, sculpture, painting, and printmaking in addition to architecture. In the architecture of Japan, the scarcity of stone is responsible for the development of wooden construction (Tansey, Kleiner 530). The earliest dwellings in the native Japanese style were constructed entirely of wood fitted together in a mortise and tenon system with thatched roofs as seen in the Ise Shrine, a third century type building (Tansey, Kleiner 53