3. Zen Buddhism
• stressed rigorous discipline & personal responsibility
• everyone has the potential for enlightenment, but wordily
knowledge & mundane thought patterns suppress it
• appealed to samurai
• Zen temples also serves as centers of Chinese learning (art,
literature)
4. Dry cascade
and pools,
upper garden,
Saihoji temple,
Kyoto, Japan
AMBROGIO LORENZETTI, Effects of
Good Government in the City and in the
Country
7. Momoyama period (1573-1615)
• Beach Blossom Hill
• Era of Warring States
• Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582)
• Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536-1582)
• Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616)
10. Japanese Tea Ceremony
• the ritual preparation, serving, & drinking of green tea
• early forms of the ceremony started in Zen temples as
symbolic withdrawal from the ordinary world
• practices spread to other social groups (samurai, wealthy
merchants)
• host’s responsibilities:
1. serving guests
2. selecting special utensils (ex. water jars, tea bowls)
3. determining the tearoom’s decoration
• tea masters - individuals recognised as master tea ceremony
practitioners
13. Edo period (1615-1868)
• Tokugawa Ieyasu set up new capital in Edo
(modern Tokyo)
• policies designed to limit social and cultural
change
• population growth in urban centres
• literacy increased
14. Eastern facade of the Katsura Imperial
Villa, Kyoto, Japan
The palace of Versailles
15.
16. HONAMI KOETSU, Boat Bridge, writing box
BENVENUTO CELLINI, Saltcellar of Francis I
17. OGATA KORIN, Red Plum
Blossoms
ANTOINE WATTEAU,
Pilgrimage to Cythera
19. Japanese Woodblock Prints
• ukiyo-e
• ukiyo-e artists sold drawings to publishers
• publishers oversaw the printing
• printing process
• blocks: fine-grained hardwood (usually cherry)
• best paper: bark of mulberry trees
• favored inexpensive dyes made form plants
• early 19th century, European synthetic dyes (Prussian blue)
23. Meiji period (1868-1912)
• shogunate ended in 1868
• restored sovereignty to the imperial throne, but
real power rested with the emperor’s cabinet
• oil painting became a major genre
26. Showa period (1926-1989)
• World War II
• US imposed new democratic institutions on
Japan
• the emperor serves only as a ceremonial head of
state
• Japan’s economy recovered quickly
27. TANGE KENZO, national indoor Olympic
stadiums, Tokyo, Japan
JOERN UTZON, Sydney Opera House
30. Questions
1. Describe characteristics of the Kano School. How is it
different from the haboku style?
2. Ｗhat is the wabi aesthetic?
3. In what ways did the shoguns establish their authority
through art?
4. To what extent were Japanese art and culture influenced
by the Chinese?
5. How did the West influence Japanese art and culture?
What happened as a result?
