Yamaton.

1879 Trans. Asiatic Soc. Japan VII. 345 Motomitsu is spoken of as the originator of the Yamato-we.

1879 Trans. Asiatic Soc. Japan VII. 346 Takanobu was a pupil of the Yamato riu.

1880 T. W. Cutler Gram. Japanese Ornament 5 In the thirteenth [century] was founded the Yamato, or Japanese school.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XV. 174/1 It did not take shape as a school until the beginning of the 11th century..; it then became known as Yamato-ryū, a title which two centuries later was changed to that of Tosa, on the occasion of one of its masters..assuming that appellation as a family name.

1935 K. Toda Japanese Scroll Painting ii. 19 Another important example of early Yamato-e is a series of wall paintings at Hōryūji.

1970 Oxf. Compan. Art 607/2 The demand for a more refined art from the aristocratic society of Kyoto, combined with the decline of the T‘ang dynasty in China, encouraged the Japanese to incorporate more native elements in their art, especially in the picture scrolls..of the yamato-e style.

1980 R. Illing Art Japanese Prints vi. 87 In the 1720s Okumura Masanobu and Shigenaga produced prints of landscape views, rather in the style of the older yamato-e album paintings, showing the Omi hakkei.

1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 13 June 6/2 He will be filled with what is called yamato damashi [sic] or the pure spirit of Japan.

1957 Encycl. Brit. XII. 954 o/1 The Japanese..have been profoundly influenced by a specific type of ideology—sometimes known as Yamato Damashii (the soul of Japan), which was partly embodied in..the code of the warrior knight.

1974 in A. Murakami Romanized Japanese (1979) 23 And there was no doubt then that the warrior code..Bushido..and the Japanese spirit..Yamato-damashii..steeled the Japanese soldier.