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JAPANESE ART Flashcards

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Japanese art

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work of art produced in Japan over the centuries including painting,calligraphy, architecture, pottery, sculpture, bronzes, jade carving, and other fine or decorative visual arts.

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Basic characteristics of Japanese art

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  • Respect for nature as a model
  • Simplicity and humility
  • Portraying religious images relatable to people
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Religions that highly influence Japanese
art

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  • Shintoism
  • Zen Buddhism
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Shintoism

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  • worship of “Kami”
  • strong connection with
    nature and spiritual forces
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Zen Buddhism

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  • meditation (enlightenment)
  • Distinctive features of Japanese art that
    stem from Zen:
  • Wabi – Spirit of poverty
  • Sabi – The feeling of historical period
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NOTABLE FORMS OF JAPANESE
ART

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JAPANESE PAINTING
UKIYO-E
SHODO
HAIKU
ORIGAMI
KIRIGAMI
KABUKI
KABUKI MAKE-UP
MANGA
ANIME

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JAPANESE PAINTING

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  • Scenes from everyday life
  • Narrative scenes crowded with
    figures and details

ex. View of Mount Fuji

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UKIYO-E

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  • A style of Japanese woodblock
    print and painting from the
    Edo period
  • Depicts famous theater actors,
    beautiful courtesans, city life,
    travel in romantic landscapes,
    and erotic scenes
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SHODO

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  • A Japanese word which means
    ​”the way of artistic hand writing or beautiful
    writing”.
  • Uses Japanese characters
  • Kanji (borrowed Chinese characters)
  • Kana
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HAIKU

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  • A poem originated in Japan
  • 5-7-5 syllable structure
  • Employs highly evocative
    allusions and comparisons
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ORIGAMI

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  • The art of paper folding to
    create decorative art
  • Ori – folding
  • Kami – paper
  • Flowers, animals, birds, fish,
    geometric shapes and dolls
  • “Paper Crane”.
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KIRIGAMI

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art of folding and cutting paper

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KABUKI

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Japanese theater that uses only male actors, who perform in a traditional and artificial manner

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KABUKI MAKE-UP

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  1. Standard Make-up – applied to most
    actors
    2.Kumadori Make-up – applied to villains
    and heroes
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KABUKI MAKE-UP

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Color and Meaning:
* Red – strength and passion
* Indigo blue and black – fear and evil
* Green – ghost or another kind of
supernatural being
* Purple - nobility

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MANGA

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Japanese comic books

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ANIME

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  • short word for animation (アニメー
    ション or animeeshon)
  • Japanese cartoons where the
    characters have giant eyes (anime
    eyes) and funky colored hair
  • A combination graphic art,
    characterization, cinematography,
    and other forms of imaginative and
    individualistic techniques.
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Influences of Japanese art to Philippine
art

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  • Use of “safe” themes in the
    works of art
  • Origami
  • Vernacular literature
  • Haiku
  • Martial arts
  • Karaoke
  • Radio Calisthenics
  • Bonsai planting
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JAPANESE PERIOD

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  1. JOMON and YAYOI periods (ca. 10,500
    BCE – 300 CE)
  2. KOFUN period (ca. 300 - 552)
  3. Asuka and Nara periods (ca. 552 - 784)
  4. Heian period (ca. 794 - 1185)
  5. Kamakura period (ca. 1185-1332)
  6. Muromachi period (ca. 1336-1573)
  7. Momoyama period (ca. 1573-1615)
  8. Edo period (ca. 1615-1868)
  9. Modern Japan to Present
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JOMON and YAYOI periods

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  • Japan’s earliest distinct
    culture
  • cord markings
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KOFUN period

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  • “old tomb”
  • Earthen burial mounds
  • largest tumulus
  • 2,000 clay cylindrical figures
  • Haniwa sculptures
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Asuka and Nara periods

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  • Buddhism was first
    introduced to Japan in 552.
  • Characteristics:
  • Building of numerous Buddhist temples
  • Sculpture in wood and bronze
    Chinese
  • cultural and artistic influence
    prevailed.
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Heian period

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  • portable paintings in the form of scrolls, albums, and screens.
  • “Kontai Butsugajo”
  • Phoenix Hall at Uji
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Kamakura period

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  • power shifted from Japanese emperor to the first shogun of Kamakura.
  • Shoguns became great patrons of art and
    architecture.
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Muromachi period

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  • Zen Buddhism rose to prominence in Japan.
  • Zen temples often featured gardens of the karesansui (dry landscape) type, which
    promoted meditation.
  • An early haboku master was
    Sesshu Toyo.
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Momoyama period

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  • Regarded as the Renaissance period of Japanese art history
  • building of castles and palaces with
    profuse ornamentation
  • The tea ceremony became an important social ritual.
  • rustic shino wares (tea utensils)
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Edo period

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growth of wealth, growing urbanization

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