Instructions: Answer two of the following questions taken from your study questions. Your answers should be typed, submitted as a Word document, and where appropriate, cite your sources (including assigned readings and the textbook, but no need to cite class lectures). You are welcome to consult additional academic sources (i.e. published articles and books, but NOT blogs, or encyclopaedias, including, but not limited to, Wikipedia, etc.) If you have any doubt about a source’s appropriateness, please ask me).
Each answer should be approximately 2- 2 1/2 pages double spaced. However, if they are slightly more or less, that is fine—I am grading for content, not length.
Please be sure to answer all parts of the question. There is no extra credit for answering additional questions.
no chatgpt, no plagiarism
1. What are the main characteristics of the Yamoto-e painting style? How does Yamato-ediffer from traditional Chinese painting? In which era did Yamato-e develop and why?What is the first example of this painting style?Your answer should refer to at least one named painting, noting the artist’s name.Using John T. Carpenter’s essay, “Learning the “Women’s Hand” in Heian Japna: KanaCalligraphy in Heian Japan,” describe the difference between kanji and kana. For whichtypes of writing and by whom would each be employed in Heian Japan?
2. What are gaki? What is their iconography? How does William La Fleur, “Hungry Ghostsand Hungry Humans: Somaticity and Rationality in Medieval Japan,” account for thepopularity of the gaki zoshi in medieval Japan and what models does he suggest thepainters used for their depictions of gaki?
3. With reference to Samuel C. Morse’s essay “Revealing the Unseen: The MasterSculptor Unkei and the Meaning of Dedicatory Objects in Kamakura-Period Sculpture,”discuss any work of Kamakura-era Buddhist sculpture and its dedicatory objects. Whatwas placed inside the sculpture and why? Your answer should include the name of thesculpture and its bushi.
