Exam 4 Japanese Art

Question 1

Answer 1

Jomon Vessels

Japan

c. 2500 BC

Earthenware

Question 2

Key Aesthetic Qualities of Japanese Art

Answer 2

• Asymmetry
• Organic
• Respect for the inherent nature of materials

Question 3

Answer 3

Haniwa figure of a warrior

300-710 CE

Terracotta

Question 4

Answer 4

Bodhisattva in Pensive Pose, probably Maitreya

Korea, Silla kingdom

late 6th–early 7th century

Gilt bronze

Question 5

Answer 5

Aerial View of Ise showing the two sectors

(first built in 600 CE)
Main Sanctuary Inner Shrine, Ise, last rebuilt 2013

Question 6

Answer 6

Buddhist compound, Horyu-ji, Nara

7th century and later

Question 7

Pagoda and Kondo

Question 8

Answer 8

Welcoming Approach of the Amida Buddha

13th century

Gold and color on indigo-dyed silk

“Namu Amida Butsu” HAIL TO AMIDA BUDDHA

Question 9

Answer 9

Kyoto, Ho-o-do (Phoenix Hall)

c. 1053

Question 10

Answer 10

Amida Buddha in the Phoenix Hall

carved by Jocho

c. 1053

Question 11

Answer 11

The Sixth Patriarch of Zen at the Moment of Enlightenment

1635–45
by Kano Tan’yu (Japanese, 1602–1674)
Ink on paper

Question 12

The Sixth Patriarch of Zen at the Moment of Enlightenment

Answer 12

“Zen” = Meditation
Enlightenment is achieved through the profound realization that one is already an enlightened being.
This realization can happen in a flash of insight.
It is the result of one’s own efforts. Deities, chants, Scriptures are only of limited assistance.

Simplicity
Natural World
Sense of rusticity, melancholy, and age

Question 13

Answer 13

Dry Landscape Garden at Ryoan-ji Temple, Kyoto

c. 1488-99

Groupings

• Asymmetry
• Balance
• Rhythm
• Harmony

Question 14

Answer 14

Sen no Riku (attributed to) Interior of the Tai-an Tea House, Kyoto

c. 1582

Question 15

Answer 15

Tea bowl, ca. 1575
Japan
Rough clay covered with a dull black glaze

Question 16

Wabi and Sabi

Tea Ceremony

Answer 16

Wabi (humility, honesty, integrity)

Sabi (preference for stillness and the old and rustic over the new)
Father Joao Rodriques (1562-1633): Tea ceremony was meant to “to produce courtesy, politeness, modesty, moderation, calmness, peace of body and soul, without pride or arrogance, fleeing from all ostentation, pomp, external grandeur and magnificence.”
Tea House built according to designs of Rikyū and the dictates of wabi

Question 17

Answer 17

Ando Hiroshige

Ohashi Bridge in the Rain

1857.

Full-color woodblock print

Question 18

Answer 18

Gemji Monogatari a.k.a. Eiribon Genji Monogatari [Tale of Genji]

(1654) Woodblock print.

Question 19

Answer 19

Utamaro Woman Holding a Fan

1793

Full-color woodblock print

Question 20

Answer 20

Hiroshige

Evening Snow at Kanbara

1834

Full-color Woodblock print

Question 21

Answer 21

Hokusai

The Great Wave of Kanagawa

c. 1823-39.

Full color woodblock print

Question 22

Woodblocks

Answer 22

REQUIRES

• Designer
• Engraver
• Printer
• Publisher
• A woodblock print image is first designed by the artist on paper and then transferred to a thin, partly transparent paper.
• Following the lines on the paper, now pasted to a wooden block usually of cherry wood, the carver chisels and cuts to create the original in negative—with the lines and areas to be colored raised in relief.
• Ink is applied to the surface of the woodblock.
• Rubbing a round pad over the back of a piece of paper laid over the top of the inked board makes a print.

Question 23

Polychrome Prints

Answer 23

Polychrome Prints

• Water-based ink
• Each color has a separate block, which could number up to 20.
• Cut marks in the block are used to align each block on the paper.
• Paper made from the mulberry tree was favored as it was strong enough to stand up to multiple printings.
• Finish made of fine glue sprinkled with mica dust