Eight Views
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The Eight Views (in Chinese: 八景 or Chinese: Bajing; Japanese: 八景, pronounced "Hakkei"; and Korean: 팔경) are the most beautiful or otherwise significant scenes of a certain area, a term often used in China, Japan and Korea. Historically, various series of eight views were produced; in some cases, such as in the Eight Views of Xiaoxiang multiple series, a whole artistic tradition was developed, with a number of artists doing versions of the series. Series of eight views typically appeared in poetry and paintings in the olden times; and now, they may appear in local governments' advertisements to tourists.
Mainland China
Original eight views
- Eight Views of Xiaoxiang (Chinese: 瀟湘八景), Hunan Province (The original "Eight Views" that influenced the other Eight Views.)
Later eight views
- Eight Views of Mount Huang (黃山八勝), Shandong Province
- Eight Views of Chang'an (長安八景), also called Eight Views of Guanzhong (關中八景), Xi'an, Shaanxi Province
- Eight Views of Luoyang (in Chinese: 洛陽八景), Luoyang, Henan Province
- Eight Views of Jinling (金陵八景), Nanjing, Jiangsu Province
- Eight Views of Ram City (羊城八景), Guangzhou, Guangdong Province
- Eight Views of Yanjing (鷰京八景), Beijing
- Eight Views of Jinzhou (Dalian) (金州古八景), Liaoning Province
- Eight Views of Luda (旅大八景), Liaoning Province
- Twelve Views of Bayu (巴渝十二景), Chongqing
- Eighteen Views of Lushan (廬山十八景), Lushan, Jiangsu Province
Taiwan
- Eight Views of Taiwan (in Chinese: 臺灣八景)
- Eight Views of Zhuluo
Japan
- Eight Views of Omi (近江八景), Shiga Prefecture
- Eight Views of Lake Biwa (琵琶湖八景 in Japanese), Shiga Prefecture - 1949
- Eight Views of Kanazawa (金沢八景 in Japanese), Kanagawa Prefecture
- Eight Views of Samani (様似八景), Hokkaido
- New Eight Views of Japan (日本新八景 in Japanese) - 1927
- Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, by Hokusai and by Hiroshige