1. Monday
Finish the Art of China
Art of Japan
India/China/ Japan Quiz tomorrow.
Take Home Essays Due Wednesday!
I’ll be here after school if you need help on your essays/ presentations

2. Art of Japan

3. JAPAN 4 different islands Migration from China and Korea
(difficulty formulizing a standard language)
Many oral traditions
(giving/ taking from neighbors to the west)

4. Vessel from Miyanomae, Middle Jomon period, (Nagano Prefecture), BCE, earthenware Jomon period/ use of “coils” as a ceramic ornament earliest vessels-storage jars (hunters & gathers)

5. Haniwa warrior figures from the Late Kofun period, fifth to mid-sixth century, low-fired clay Kofun period/ cylindrical statues made for tombs/ haniwa/

6. Shintoism
Kami “spirits”, invisible to the human eye but are capable of exerting an influence on our visible universe.
Reside in forests, fields, waterfalls, and huge stones. Holy places
A quest for purity and harmony with nature. Encouraged artists to respect the nature of the materials with which they worked.

7. Ise Shrine (as rebuilt in 1973) Shinto Shrine and the veneration of the kami/ sun goddess Amaterasu/ rebuilt every 20 years

8. Below: Torii to Ise’s Inner Shrine

9. “heart pillar”/ Imperial or Inner Shrine/ Outer Shrine/ wooden weights with metallic caps/ chigi forked finials/ tiered fencing/ formal simplicity, disciplined structure, and a spiritual presence

10. Horuyuji kondo, or Golden Hall (Nara, Japan), Hakuho period, c
Horuyuji kondo, or Golden Hall (Nara, Japan), Hakuho period, c Buddhist Architecture/ Introduced around 6th century through S. Korea/ Religion grounded through imperial support/ elite status/ world’s oldest wooden building

11. Right: Todai-Ji Temple at Nara, 743 Below: Horuyuji kondo Buddhist capital at Nara/ kondo/ monastery-temple complex

12. Zen Buddhism Arose during the Muromachi period in the 14th century.
Followers hoped to achieve enlightenment, through “meditation”.
Emphasized rigorous discipline and personal responsibility.
Zen teachings: mental calm, lack of fear, and spontaneity are signs of advancements towards enlightenment.

13. Stone and gravel garden at the temple of Ryoan-ji (Kyoto) c
Stone and gravel garden at the temple of Ryoan-ji (Kyoto) c Muromachi period/ Zen in spirit (calmness, daily meditation)

14. Rock gardens
Enclosed shallow sandbox, sand gravel, rocks, natural elements
Earth contours, stones, and waterways combined to symbolize mountains, rivers, fields, and beaches.
Subtle, mystery, asymmetry, simplicity, stillness

15. Shoin architecture during the Momoyama period

16. Katsura Imperial Villa (Kyoto) 1620-1663

17. Edo period/ shogun/Tokugawa Ieyasu ( )/ Prince Toshihito ( )/ daimyo/ importance of the tea ceremony (chanoyu)

18. lack of ornament but variety of textures/ integration of building and garden/ division of society into four distinct classes/ chonin (or shoin)

19. Interior of the Katsura Palace/ paper sliding doors/ free-standing screens/

20. Hasegawa Tohahuku,
Pine Forest
Momoyama Period
Late 16th century, Ink on paper, 6 panel screen

21. Aesthetics and techniques of Zen- the act of painting is meditative Zen training
Sumi-e (black ink on paper/ painting technique
Evoke poetry through brush work.
Capture the essence of nature through a variety of brush strokes

22. Ogata Korin. White Plum Blossoms in the Spring, Tokugawa period, late seventeenth to early eighteenth centuries, screen, color on gold paper

23. Rinpa School/ vivid color/ extensive use of gold leaf/ emphasis on pattern, dramatic contrast, and simplified motifs/ reduced landscape and contrast form and texture

24. Yosa Buson. Traveler and Horse Passing through a Spring Landscape, seventeenth century, hanging scroll, ink and color on ink

25. Yosa Buson/ Literati Style-painting to educate, stories/ events/ dense foliage patterns with pale colors/ sencha

26. Yosa Buson. Selections from The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Basho’s text haiku-(17 syllable Japanese poem) bold lines, figures more abstract

27. Block Printing

28. Suzuki Harunobu. Evening Bell at the Clock, from Eight Views of the Parlor series, c.1765, woodblock ukiyo (pictures of floating world) / haiku clubs in Edo/ diminutive features/ suggestion of voyeurism/ architecture composed of diagonals/ black outlines

29. Suzuki Harunobu. Shimizu, from Seven Komachi, c.1767, woodblock

30. a courtesan and her teenage apprentice/ inscribed verse suggests a melancholy mood/ the knots of an obi/ imitate (parody)

31. Suzuki Harunobu. Pilgrimage on a Rainy Night, late 1760s, color woodblock print

32. Suzuki Harunobu. Whispering, c. 1766-68, color woodblock print

33. Mary Cassatt- Impressionist (Japan opens up to the western world in 1853-1854/ trade)

34. Katsushika Hokusai. The Greave Wave off Kanagawa, from Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, c , woodblock print oban, ink and colors on paper

35. influence of Western perspective/Mount Fuji/ nature as an active force/ Manga

36. Katshshika Hokusai. Mount Fuji in Clear Weather from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, , oban woodblock print

37. Katsushika Hokusai. Amida Waterfall on the Kiso Highway from A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces, c , color woodblock print

38. Amida waterfall/ geometry of nature

39. Ando Hiroshige. Fireworks over Ryoguku Bridge, from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 1856, woodblock print

40. Ando Hiroshige. Sudden Shower over Ohashi Bridge, from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 1856, color woodblock print Famous views of Edo

41. Ando Hiroshige. Scattered Pines, Tone River, from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 1856, color woodblock print

42. Ando Hiroshige. Plum Garden at Kameido, from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, 1856, color woodblock print

43. the Sleeping Dragon Plum / emphasis on negative space

44. Van Gogh- Post-Impressionist