Japanese art covers a wide range of art styles and media, including ancient pottery, sculpture, ink painting andcalligraphy on silk and paper, ukiyo-e paintings and woodblock prints, kiri-e, kirigami, origami, and more recently manga—modern Japanese cartooning and comics—along with a myriad of other types of works of art. It has a long history, ranging from the beginnings of human habitation in Japan, sometime in the 10th millennium BC, to the present. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_art)