Slide / art identification

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Poet on a Mountaintop by the artist Shen Zhou, 1500. Was a believer of Daoism.

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China Painted Banner, HAn Dynasty, 160 BCE. Shows a mythocentric age Summarizes the world view of heaven, earth and the underworld. Humans are shown across supernatural figures. Various entryways to heaven and the underworld

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The Great Wild Goose Pagoda. At Ci’en Temple, Chang ‘an, Shanxi, Tang Dynasty, first errrected 645 adn rebuilt mid 8th century CE. There is the introduction and combination of the buddhist stupa and the han watch towers to create the first Chinese buddhist temples that are unique to that region. that are passed on from Korea to Japan.

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Seated Guanyin Bodhisattava Liao Dynasty 11th and 12th century CE. Chinese version join block constrruction. identifiable as Chinese rather than Indian bcs of the rigid frontality and the technique used to create it.

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Fan Kuan Travelers among the mountains and streams we have the neo-confusion idea of li, qi, and taiji. Or the idea of a mountain or idea of what a mountain is. The specific view of a mountian her and we must asend by way of meditation and of concentration to rid our qi of imperfection to rejoin the taiji or great ultimate.

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Shen Zhou, Poet on a Mountaintop, Ming Dynasty c 1500. Literati painting specific to China early on and then passed to Japan whereby the notion here is the mind supercedes the pysical world. We see a poet overlooking the mountians and stepping above the clouds. tEh style is very expressionistic quick adn suggestive

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The Tale of Genji Heian period, 12th century CE. We have the blown away roof view. highented by the drama of a illegitamte child and the ruler who realizes it is not shown throuhg expressions but through the composition and arrangement. Common for the period.

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Kosho, Kuya Preaching Kamakura Period before 1207. Good example of Japanese pure land buddhism which shows accessibility and egalitarianism of this particular buddhist approach which states we jsut need to chant Amida Buddha for buddha to save us and hear our call adn we will be reborn in paradise.

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Descent of Buddha of Amida and the twenty five Bodhisattvatas, Kamakura Period 13th century CE. - Pure Ladn Amida buddha descendds along with the (Shinto-kami ) from mountains thus bringing togetehr Buddhism and shinto for the Japanese