Asian Art: Japan

Question 1

How does the artist create a cold feeling in the painting above?

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Answers may vary. He uses the whites of the paper to create snow, and creates crystalline fragments using overlapping planes.

Question 2

What is written on the scrolls above?

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do no evil, perform every good

Question 3

Which of the following played a role in Maruyama Okyo’s style of painting?

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Okyo studied Western perspective painting when he was younger and was able to incorporate these concepts in his work.

Question 4

Who is the artist of the above scrolls?

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Rinzai priest Ikkyu

Question 5

Who is the artist of the above painting?

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Nagasawa Rosetsu

Question 6

Which period are the scrolls above from?

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Muromachi period

Question 7

What was the purpose of the Zen gardens?

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to aid in meditation and contemplation

Question 8

The _______ period was filled with different schools of painting, such as the ______________, which introduced the concept of volume to Japanese art.

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Edo; Maruyama-Shijo

Question 9

Zen gardens were the result of intense __________ and manual _________.

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study and labor

Question 10

Edo, the capital of Japan during the period of the same name, is now known by what name?

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Tokyo

Asian Art: Japan Answers