The Art of Japan after 1392 A.D.

1. What is the name of the religion of the indigenous Japanese?
2. What were the three most significant contributions the Chinese had to Japanese culture?
3. What do Shinto and Buddhism have in common?
4. Know the dates of the Heian, Kamakura, Muromachi, Momoyama, Edo and Meiji periods?
5. What was the Tale of Genji?
6. What were samurai? What were shoguns?
7. What is ink painting?
8. What attributes of Zen Buddhism are visible in Japanese ink painting of the Muromachi period?
9. According to Ikkyu, who were the followers of the "false Zen"?
10. During which period was Zen Buddhism at its most prevelant in Japanese culture?
11. What is the Zen appeal of the so-called "dry garden"?
12. What did Europeans import into Japan during the Momoyama period, and how did this permanently change the face of Japanese warfare and architecture?
13. What is a fusuma?
14. In Japanese art, cranes and pine trees symbolize what? What is the symbol of Spring?
15. How did the Japanese ritual of tea drinking change in the Kamakura period?
16. Why was the tea ritual important to the Zen Buddhists?
17. Describe the ideal conditions and arrangement of a Japanese tea room.
18. What is a tatami mat, and where would one be found?
19. Describe the attributes of the ideal Japanese teabowl.
20. Describe the technique of creating a piece of lacquer work.
21. What were the names of the northern and southern schools of Japanese painting during the Edo period? How were the aims of each school of painting different?
22. How do the Chinese and Japanese views of nature differ?
23. What is a koan?
24. What is the Ukiyo? What were the Ukiyo-e?
25. How were 18th & 19th pictures created for common people different from other s?
26. How is a courtesan similar to a Zen Buddhist monk in art?
27. Describe the woodblock printing process.
28. How did Japanese woodblock prints affect Western art?
29. What specific aspects of Japanese woodblock prints can be found in the work of the Impressionists?
30. What year was the first major Western exhibition of Japanese prints held? Why?