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REPRESENTATIVE EARLY EAST ASIAN ART: JAPAN EUGENIA LANGAN MATER ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL HIALEAH GARDENS, FLORIDA.

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1 REPRESENTATIVE EARLY EAST ASIAN ART: JAPAN EUGENIA LANGAN MATER ACADEMY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL HIALEAH GARDENS, FLORIDA

2 THEME:  I I I INNOVATIVE IMITATIVE ISLANDS  TO RECALL THAT JAPANESE CIVILIZATION AND ART (LIKE ALL EAST ASIAN CIVILIZATION) IMITATES CHINESE CIVILIZATION, BUT JAPAN, PERHAPS BECAUSE IT IS AN ISLAND NATION, INNOVATED AND CREATED A DISTINCTLY AND UNIQUELY JAPANESE CIVILIZATION AND ART

3 AP EXAM GOALS:  THE USUAL ONES FOR NON-WESTERN ART (KNOW MAJOR EXAMPLES FOR MC QUESTIONS, EXAMPLES FOR EACH THEME FOR ESSAYS)  PAY ATTENTION TO DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF JAPANESE PAINTING AND WOODCUTS THAT WILL GREATLY INFLUENCE MODERNIST WESTERN ART

4 ART HISTORY GOALS:  EXAMINE EARLY INDIGENOUS JAPANESE VISUAL ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE (PRE-BUDDHIST)  UNDERSTAND THE ARRIVAL AND DEVELOPMENT OF BUDDHISM AND ITS INFLUENCE ON ARCHITECTURE AND ART.  EVALUATE THE FORMS OF JAPANESE TEMPLE CONSTRUCTION.  UNDERSTAND THE FORMS AND STYLES OF HEIAN JAPANESE COURT ART.  EXAMINE THE POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS ART OF THE KAMAKURA PERIOD.

5 QUICK CONTEXT:  PREHISTORICAL:  © 10,500 – 300 B.C.E.: JOMON PERIOD (NEOLITHIC)  © 300 B.C.E. – 300 C.E.: YAYOI PERIOD – NAR, BRONZE AGE (VILLAGES) MUST HAVE BEEN SOME CONTACTS WITH KOREA AND CHINA MUST HAVE BEEN SOME CONTACTS WITH KOREA AND CHINA  © 300 – 552: KOFUN PERIOD (STILL BRONZE AGE) SHINTO = ANIMISM SHINTO = ANIMISM DEFINITE TRADE WITH CHINA, PERHAPS INTRODUCTION OF CHINESE KANJI (WRITING) DEFINITE TRADE WITH CHINA, PERHAPS INTRODUCTION OF CHINESE KANJI (WRITING)

6  © 552 - 685: ASUKA PERIOD = ARRIVAL OF BUDDHIST MISSIONARIES IN JAPAN (FROM KOREA?)  CIVILIZATION = SINIFICATION = INTRODUCTION OF CHINESE CULTURE, INCLUDING RELIGION, CONFUCIANISM, WRITING, WORDS, ART AND ARCHITECTURE  710 – 795: NARA PERIOD – DELIBERATE SINIFICATION BUDDHIST EMPERORS AND EMPRESSES AT NARA (PATTERNED AFTER XIAN, CHINA), DEVELOPMENT OF JAPANESE SCRIPT. OFFICIAL BUDDHISM TO BOOST AUTHORITY OF EMPERORS  794 – 1185: HEIAN PERIOD – JAPANESE GOLDEN AGE - EMERGENCE OF DISTINCTLY JAPANESE CULTURE  1185 – 1332: KAMAKURA SHOGUNATE (FORMAL FEUDALISM)

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8 PREHISTORIC NEOLITHIC AND BRONZE AGES (JOMON, YAYOI, KOFUN) ONLY FOR PURPOSE OF UNDERSTANDING WHAT INDIGENOUS JAPANESE ART WAS LIKE BEFORE SINIFICATION

9 DOTAKU WITH INCISED FIGURAL MOTIFS, FROM KAGAWA PREFECTURE, JAPAN, LATE YAYOI PERIOD, 100–300 C.E. BRONZE, 1'4 7/8"HIGH. TOKYO NATIONAL MUSEUM

10 TUMULUS OF "EMPEROR NINTOKU", SAKAI, OSAKA PREFECTURE, JAPAN, KOFUN PERIOD, LATE 4 TH TO 5 TH CENTURY, AND HANIWA WARRIOR, FROM GUNMA PREFECTURE, JAPAN, KOFUN PERIOD, 5 TH TO MID-6 TH CENTURY. LOW-FIRED CLAY, 4' 3 ¼" HIGH. NATIONAL MUSEUM, TOKYO

11 MAIN HALL, AMATERASU SHRINE, ISE, MIE PREFECTURE, JAPAN, KOFUN PERIOD OR LATER; REBUILT EVERY 20 YEARS, LAST REBUILT 1993 (REBIRTH, PURIFICATION) – SO WE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT ORIGINALLY LOOKED LIKE – HOWEVER, NOT CHINESE MORTISE-AND TENON CONSTRUCTION, CHIGI, KATSUGOI

12 ASUKA AND NARA PERIODS SINIFICATION

13 TORI BUSSHI, SHAKA TRIAD, KONDO, HORY- U-JI, NARA PREFECTURE, JAPAN, ASUKA PERIOD, 623. BRONZE, CENTRAL FIGURE 5' 9 ½" HIGH. BUDDHA TRIAD = BUDDHA = 2 BODDHISATVAS NOTE MUDRA, MANDORLA (EASTERN OR WESTERN?), OVERLAPPING FLOWING, PATTERNED DRAPING

14 YAKUSHI TRIAD, KONDO, YAKUSHIJI, NARA PREFECTURE, JAPAN, NARA PERIOD, LATE 7 TH OR 8 TH. BRONZE, CENTRAL FIGURE 8' 4" HIGH, INCLUDING BASE AND MANDORLA. NOTE TINY BUDDHAS IN MANDORLAS

15 AERIAL VIEW, TEMPLE COMPLEX, HORY-U-JI, NARA PREFECTURE, JAPAN, 7 TH CENTURY

16 KONDO (ABOVE) AND AERIAL VIEW OF THE HORY-U-JI TEMPLE COMPLEX, NARA PREFECTURE, JAPAN, NARA PERIOD, © 680. PRIOR TO ALTERATIONS, VERY CHINESE

17 AMIDA TRIAD, WALL PAINTING FORMERLY IN THE KONDO, HORY-U- JI, © 710. INK AND COLORS, 10' 3" X 8' 6". HORY-U-JI TREASURE HOUSE, NARA.

18 18 TH CENTURY, SMALLER REPLICA OF 8 TH CENTURY NARA DAIBUTSUDEN, TODAIJ POWER AND AUTHORITY

19 HEIAN PERIOD JAPANESE!

20 TAIZOKAI (WOMB WORLD) MANDARA, KYOOGO-KOKU-JI (TOJI), KYOTO, JAPAN, HEIAN PERIOD, SECOND HALF OF NINTH CENTURY. HANGING SCROLL, COLOR ON SILK, 6' X 5' 5/8".

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23 PHOENIX HALL, BYODOIN, UJI, KYOTO PREFECTURE, JAPAN, HEIAN PERIOD, 1053. CHINESE/ JAPANESE

24 GENJI VISITS MURASAKI, FROM THE MINORI CHAPTER, TALE OF GENJI, HEIAN PERIOD, 1 ST HALF OF 12 TH CENTURY. HAND SCROLL, INK AND COLOR ON PAPER, 8 5/8"HIGH. GOTO ART MUSEUM, TOKYO. 5/8"HIGH. GOTO ART MUSEUM, TOKYO. JAPANESE! "IMPRESSIONIST"

25 “THE FLYING STOREHOUSE”, FROM LEGENDS OF MOUNT SHIGI, HEIAN PERIOD, LATE 12 TH CENTURY. HANDSCROLL, INK AND COLORS ON PAPER, 1' ½" HIGH. CHOGOSONCHI-JI, NARA.

26 DETAIL, “FLYING STOREHOUSE”

27 KAMAKURA SHOGUNATE

28 PORTRAIT STATUE OF THE PRIEST SHUNJOBO CHOGEN, TODAIJI, NARA, JAPAN, KAMAKURA PERIOD, EARLY 13TH CENTURY. PAINTED CYPRESS WOOD, STATUE 2' 8 3/8" HIGH; DETAIL 1'9"HIGH. NOTE NATURALISM AND ROCK-CRYSTAL EYES

29 NIGHT ATTACK ON THE SAN-JO PALACE, FROM EVENTS OF THE HEIJI PERIOD, KAMAKURA PERIOD, 13 TH CENTURY. HANDSCROLL, INK AND COLORS ON PAPER, 1' 4 ¼" HIGH; COMPLETE SCROLL 22' 10" LONG. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON.

30 DETAIL, NIGHT ATTACK ON SAN-JO PALACE

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32 AMIDA DESCENDING OVER THE MOUNTAINS, KAMAKURA PERIOD, 13 TH CENTURY. HANGING SCROLL, INK AND COLORS ON SILK, 4' 3 1/8" X 3' 10 ½". ZENRIN-JI, KYOTO.


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