Arts of Japan Exam I
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, to the University and it will result in a 0 for this assignment.
Please submit your exam by February 22th, 5:00 pm EST
1. What are dogu and in which Japanese culture where they made? With reference to Harada Masayuki’s essay “Dogu Broken and Enshrined: Traces of a Jomon Worldview,” what is the prevailing theory regarding their sex and sacred functions? Where have the majority of the dogubeen found and why?
2. What is the Great Jingu Shrine at Ise, who is the main kami there, and what is her relationship with the Japanese imperial family? What, according to Cassandra Adams (“Japan’s Ise Shrine…”) is the purpose of the reconstruction rituals at the site?
3. What is the “Shaka Triad,” what is its media, what characters does it depict, and where is it enshrined? In what artistic style is it executed (what is the origin of the style? Was it current in its homeland at the time? Why?)? Who was its master sculptor? Why, according to its inscription, was it made, and for whom?
