Japanese-style painting; nihonga
Refers to traditional Japanese painting using materials and techniques distinct from Western-style oil painting (洋画). Often contrasted with 洋画.
See also: 洋画
He painted Mt. Fuji in the traditional Japanese style.
She entered a university in Kyoto to study Japanese-style painting.
Contemporary nihonga are also exhibited at this exhibition.
I'm studying nihonga at university.
日本画 covers traditional Japanese painting broadly, including color, whereas 墨絵 refers specifically to monochrome ink painting.
日本画 refers to traditional Japanese-style painting, while 洋画 refers to Western-style (esp. oil) painting, and the two are the standard contrasting pair in art contexts.
油彩 is a Western oil-painting technique, while 日本画 refers to traditional Japanese-style painting using mineral pigments, so the two are easily confused as general 'painting' terms.
油絵 is a Western-style painting done with oil paints, whereas 日本画 is traditional Japanese-style painting using ink and mineral pigments.
水彩画 refers to Western-style watercolor painting, whereas 日本画 is traditional Japanese-style painting using mineral pigments, so the two differ in style and materials.
Compound of 日本 (Nihon, 'Japan') and 画 (ga, 'picture, painting'). The term was coined in the Meiji period to distinguish traditional Japanese painting from newly introduced Western-style painting (洋画).