15th Century Early Renaissance

Question 1

Bonseki

Answer 1

– tray garden with sand and stones

Question 2

Bonsai

Answer 2

– dwarfed plants in tray containers

Question 3

Shoin

Answer 3

a type of audience hall in Japanese architecture that was developed during the Muromachi period. The term originally meant a study and a place for lectures on the sūtra within a temple, but later it came to mean just a drawing room or study.

Question 4

Kare sansui

Answer 4

dry landscape gardens; similar to tray landscapes (started

as accepted art forms in Kamakura era)

Question 5

Kawaramono

Answer 5

– poor garden specialists; did unlean work
– The first gardeners in Japan were called Senzui Kawaramono (山水河原者)- Riverbank Gardeners. Kawaramono belonged to Burakumin low-class (hamlet people) – an outcast group at the bottom of the Japanese social order that has historically been the victim of severe discrimination.

Question 6

Zen’ami

Answer 6

– they arranged rocks as they appear in painting (Kawaramono);
credited for Ginkaku-ji

Question 7

Sesshu

Answer 7

– elaborated on Chinese painting techniques

– most prominent Japanese master of ink and wash painting from the middle Muromachi period.