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| Visions of Enlightenment: Arts of Buddhism |
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| Pacific Asia Museum of USC
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An excellent site for students, with many additional resources for teachers. Text essays with images on the following four topics: 1) The Perfected One: The Buddha; 2) Compassionate Beings: Bodhisattvas, Deities, Guardians, Holy Men; 3) Buddhist Places; and 4) Signs, Symbols, Ritual Objects. Also features an extensive glossary of Buddhist-related terms and an excellent interactive map and timeline outlining the life of the Buddha and the spread of Buddhism. Teaching unit at the link below. See also Introduction.
Go to Museum Resource: https://pacificasiamuseum.usc.edu/exhibitions/past/exhibitions-at-usc-pam-prior... | |
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| Woodblock Prints in the Ukiyo-e Style |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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A brief introduction to the development of the ukiyo-e style in woodblock printing, with a focus on the technical aspects of polychrome printing. With 11 related artworks.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ukiy/hd_ukiy.htm | |
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| The Written Image: Japanese Calligraphy and Painting |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Online presentation of a 2002-2003 exhibition. "The Written Image: Japanese Calligraphy and Painting from the Sylvan Barnet and William Burto Collection ... traces the evolution of Japanese calligraphy from the Nara period (710–784) through the 19th century." With images of 10 related artworks.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2002/sylvan-barnet-and-william-b... | |
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| The Yamato Colony: Pioneering Japanese in Florida |
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| The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens
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"Yamato —an ancient name for the country of Japan. Why do we find the name here in Palm Beach County? Because Yamato, Florida, was a small community where Japanese farmers once lived. The story of Yamato begins with Jo Sakai's visit to Florida in 1903." Online presentation of a permanent exhibition at the Morikami Museum in Florida. Informative text with a few small historical photographs.
Go to Museum Resource: https://morikami.org/yamato-island/ | |
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| Yayoi Culture (ca. 4th century B.C.–3rd century A.D.) |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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A brief overview of cultural developments during the Yayoi period. With 3 related artifacts.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/yayo/hd_yayo.htm | |
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| Yellow Promise/Yellow Peril: Foreign Postcards of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) |
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| Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visualizing Cultures
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"Imperial Japan’s 1904-5 war against Tsarist Russia changed the global balance of power. The first war to be depicted internationally in postcards, it is captured here in these dramatic images." See the ESSAY section for an in-depth, illustrated reading of the images from the historical record. See the VISUAL NARRATIVES section for a shorthand view of the unit's primary themes and images. A CURRICULUM section for teachers and students can be found under the "Yellow Promise/Yellow Peril" menu at the top of the page.
Go to Museum Resource: http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/yellow_promise_yellow_peril/index.html | |
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| Yokohama Boomtown: Foreigners in Treaty-Port Japan (1859-1872) |
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| Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visualizing Cultures
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"This window on the imagined life of foreigners in Japan at the dawn of the modern era is based on the catalogue of the 1990 exhibition at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Yokohama: Prints from Nineteenth-Century Japan, by Ann Yonemura." The ESSAY section provides historical background and analysis; the VISUAL NARRATIVES section "enables the user to scroll through two sequences of Yokohama prints" -- one sequence telling the story of foreign settlement in Yokohama, the other surveying the scene through the work of woodblock artist Sadahide. A CURRICULUM section for teachers and students can be found under the "Yokohama Boomtown" menu at the top of the page.
Go to Museum Resource: http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/yokohama/index.html | |
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| Yoshihiro Suda: In Focus |
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| Asia Society
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"Asia Society is pleased to present the first solo New York museum exhibition of Yoshihiro Suda (born 1969, Japan), a Japanese contemporary artist known for his hyper-realistic sculptures of plants and flowers created in the tradition of Japanese wood carving. ... Through the juxtaposition and installation of his new work with traditional works, Suda questions the way we view objects, in both nature and museums."
Go to Museum Resource: http://sites.asiasociety.org/suda/ | |
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