The manual covers issues related to the specifics of the art of China and Japan (architecture, painting, sculpture) of the periods of antiquity and the early Middle Ages. The material is built in accordance with the principles of historicism, a number of topics reflect the features of theoretical art criticism (art schools, styles, principles of formation, the relationship between iconography and visual canons). Addressed to undergraduate and graduate students studying the discipline "Art of India, the Far East and Southeast Asia" within the module "General History of Arts," as well as everyone interested in issues of fine art Of the East.