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| The Art of Calligraphy in Asia |
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| Princeton University Art Museum
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“Calligraphy, the art of beautiful writing, was long considered the supreme art form in China, Japan, and Korea. This elevated status reflects the importance of the written word in East Asian cultures. In ancient China, early emperors asserted their power by engraving edicts or pronouncements on stone in their own calligraphic script. The elite members of society were scholar ¬officials, whose status was attained by their command of the written word. In addition to the central role played by writing in Chinese culture, the visual form of the language also contributed to the distinctiveness of the calligraphic tradition. The vast number and complexity of the characters that make up the Chinese script presented artists with a unique platform on which to explore the creative possibilities of design. The writing of Chinese characters-which was then widely adopted in Korea around the fourth century and in Japan in the mid-sixth century-was thought to be the purest visual manifestation of the writer's inner character and level of cultivation. It was the medium through which a person's thoughts, feelings, and artistry were best conveyed. In looking at a piece of calligraphy, we may admire the way a calligrapher manipulated the brush to create an object of beauty in which rhythmic energy is conveyed through strokes and dots done with ink. Changes in ink gradation, the relationship between characters, and the elegance of a single line can entice viewers regardless of the legibility of the text.
Go to Museum Resource: https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/object-package/art-calligraphy-asia/104193 | |
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| Art of East Asia: Curriculum Guide |
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| San Diego Museum of Art
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The Museum’s Education Department has created a series of lesson plans to help introduce art into the classroom. The following lesson plans have been designed to help educators create elaborate classroom activities that will enhance their students’ understanding of works of art at The San Diego Museum of Art. See also: Exploring the Art of East Asia [PDF}.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.sdmart.org/curriculum/ | |
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| Asian Art Outlook |
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| Asia Society
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A resource for educators featuring highlights from the Asia Society's permanent collection. The site aims to serve as "an accessible and tangible starting point for discussion about the history, geography and cultures of Asia." Features 21 artworks (7 from the Indian subcontinent, 7 from China, and 7 from Japan), each with background text and a detailed guide on how to look at the work. Also includes 8 additional lesson plans related to Asian art, history, and culture.
Go to Museum Resource: http://sites.asiasociety.org/education/AsianArt/index.htm | |
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| Capturing the Haiku Moment (Teacher’s Guide) [PDF] |
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| Portland Art Museum
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Poetic Imagination in Japanese Art: Capturing the Haiku Moment in Nature, Art, and Poetry curriculum is a series of lessons designed for 2nd–12th grade students to “awaken their senses” within the natural world. The lessons are rooting in the Japanese cultural value of Living in Harmony with Nature and find expression in the Japanese poetic form of haiku and in Japanese art.
Go to Museum Resource: https://portlandartmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Capturing-the-Haiku-Mo... | |
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| Create Your Own Illustrated Haiku |
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| Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
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Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry made of three lines (5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables) that is commonly a meditation on nature. Make an image using colorful paper and ink, and then write a haiku inspired by your creation. Downloads include visual instructions and an activity.
Go to Museum Resource: https://education.asianart.org/resources/create-your-own-illustrated-haiku/ | |
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| Cultivating Enlightenment: The Manifold Meaning of Japanese Zen Gardens |
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| Education About Asia
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An excellent visual and narrative introduction to Japanese Zen, and perhaps its most iconic symbols. While Zen gardens have been a fixture of Japanese aesthetics since the Muromachi Period (1336–1573), the purposes and meanings of these austere landscapes have been far less fixed, and indeed have changed somewhat since their first appearance as places for meditation in the Zen temples of medieval Japan. ...The image of the Zen garden, however,... “speaks” for itself, and provides us with a representation of spiritual quality that is best experienced rather than discursively argued. This is only appropriate since the transmission of Zen wisdom is supposed to be nonverbal. With PDF download.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/cultivating-enlightenmen... | |
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| Garden of the Phoenix (Chicago’s Jackson Park) |
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| Garden of the Phoenix (Chicago’s Jackson Park)
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In Chicago's Jackson Park, our future is growing from the past. The new Garden of the Phoenix symbolizes Japan and the U.S.'s 160-year story.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.gardenofthephoenix.org/ | |
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| Haiku: Learning and Sharing the Beauty of Being Human (9-12) |
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| The Kennedy Center, ArtsEdge
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Over the course of two classes, students will reflect on their daily lives to find small moments of peace and/or happiness. Using these moments and/or observations, students will create a haiku and an accompanying photograph, which will be combined into a digital visual class anthology.
Go to Museum Resource: https://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/educators/lessons/grade-9-12/Haiku_Learning... | |
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| The Japanese Garden |
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| Bowdoin College
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An excellent resource about Japanese gardens. Currently featuring 29 gardens (primarily "the historical gardens of Kyoto and its environs, including Nara"), the website was "designed simply to provide the visitor with an opportunity to visit each garden, to move through or around it, to experience it through the medium of high-quality color images, and to learn something of its history." With additional information about the origins and key elements of the Japanese garden, this is a truly outstanding resource on the topic of Japanese gardens. Also with a bibliography, glossary, and list of web links.
Go to Museum Resource: http://learn.bowdoin.edu/japanesegardens/index.html | |
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| Learning from Asian Art: Japan |
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| Philadelphia Museum of Art
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"This online resource introduces students to Japanese art and culture as they explore works in the Philadelphia Museum’s collection. Each art image is accompanied by background information, a set of looking questions, and related classroom activity suggestions that students can use individually, in small groups, or as a whole class." With 10 images, plus a map, timeline, and list of recommended print resources and websites.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.philamuseum.org/booklets/4_22_39_1.html | |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Asian Art |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The Metropolitan Museum's content-rich website offers many options for exploring its online collection of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Himalayan art. Browse artworks by country/culture, time period, or subject area; or search for artworks and featured content for a specific country/culture or topic by using the Timeline website's search tool.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ | |
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| Minneapolis Institute of Arts: The Art of Asia |
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| Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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The Explore the Collection section of this content-rich site features nearly 3,500 objects from the MIA's collection of Asian art. All images have a Zoom View; most images have descriptions. A Featured Objects section highlights 20 objects from the collection in great detail (through curator interviews), and six Featured Collections showcase objects in the following categories: 1) Ancient Chinese Bronzes; 2) Architectural Models; 3) Chinese Furniture; 4) Imperial Silks; 5) Taoist Art; and 6) Ukiyo-e. Users can also browse objects by country/region or by one of 15 subject categories (architecture, paintings, ceramics, drawings, etc.) or use the keyword search. An Add to My Collection feature allows users to create an online gallery to save and to share.
Go to Museum Resource: http://archive.artsmia.org/art-of-asia/explore/index.html | |
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| Museum Dictionary: A Young Person's Guide to the Collections of the Kyoto National Museum |
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| Kyoto National Museum
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"Museum Dictionary: A Young Person's Guide to the Collections of the Kyoto National Museum": excellent teaching resource for students of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean art. Images enlarge, text in story format.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.kyohaku.go.jp/eng/dictio/index.html | |
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| Noh Theater |
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| The Kennedy Center, ArtsEdge
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In this lesson plan "students study the art of the Japanese Noh theater and act out a Noh play. In learning about the history, theatrical elements, music and dance, and costuming, they are also comparing and contrasting these to the other theater elements they have studied involving Greek, Elizabethan and Modern Theater. Students will be assigned or allowed to choose essay questions that they will need to research and answer."
Go to Museum Resource: https://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/educators/lessons/grade-9-12/Noh_Theater | |
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| Poetic Imagination in Japanese Art |
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| Portland Art Museum
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“Poetic Imagination in Japanese Art focuses on one of the great strengths of the Cowleses’ holdings: visual art closely tied to poetic traditions. Poetry, painting, and calligraphy have always been deeply intertwined in East Asia, but in Japan the nature and meaning of those relationships have evolved over time, responding to larger cultural changes. The artworks in this exhibition, spanning the eighth to 20th centuries, illuminate the central role of poetry in the visual arts across time and in diverse social contexts.”
Go to Museum Resource: https://portlandartmuseum.org/exhibitions/poetic-imagination-in-japanese-art/ | |
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| Red Luster (Lacquer) |
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| The Newark Museum
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Much of East Asia Lacquer is made from a toxic resin produced by the so-called ‘varnish tree’ (Toxicodendron vernicifluum, formerly identified as Rhus vernicifluum) native to parts of China that also grows in areas of Korea and Japan. Initially, this tree’s resin is processed into a liquid that may be applied over any surface such as woods, metals, cloth, ceramics, baskets, shells, and so forth. To maximize lacquer’s significant protective coating, multiple thin layers are applied and each layer must fully dry before the next is added. Drying is carefully controlled to prevent cracking that would weaken the functional and decorative properties. Raw lacquer dries into a naturally dark color. Adding opaque minerals, such as cinnabar reds (mercury sulfide), orpiment yellows (arsenic sulfate), and malachite greens (copper carbonate) creates colored lacquers. In different processing stages, lacquer can be worked in a variety of techniques.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.newarkmuseum.org/red-luster | |
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| Shintaro-san of the Mountain: Mountains, Minyo, and Japanese Culture |
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| Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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This tutorial provides an introductory view into Japanese traditional ballads or folksongs, known as minyo, and folktales involving the cultural heritage of Japanese mountains. Basic background of Japanese traditional music and Japanese mountain folklore will be discussed; musical activities, experiences, and stories support this lesson.
Go to Museum Resource: https://folkways.si.edu/shintaro-san-of-the-mountain-mountains-minyo-and-japane... | |
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| Soran Bushi: Exploring Japanese Work Song |
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| Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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Soran Bushi, a Japanese work song, allows for exploration into Japanese culture (work song/environment/nature) as well as exploration in creative composition/arranging. This unit takes students on an aural journey from the boats of the Hokkaido fishermen to their own perspective & interpretation, giving students a sense of pulse and rhythm as they compose and arrange, inspired by Japanese traditional music.
Go to Museum Resource: https://folkways.si.edu/soran-bushi-exploring-japanese-work-song/music/tools-fo... | |
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| Teahouse (Chashitsu) |
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| Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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With introductory overview and images of this permanent architectural installation at the MIA that replicates the Sa-an, an 18th-century teahouse in the Gyokurin-in, a temple complex within the famous Zen monastery of Daitoku-ji in Kyoto. The CURATOR INTERVIEW section examines aspects of the room in greater detail. There is also a link to another installation -- an audience hall modeled after a formal 17th-century shoin (study) at the Konchi-in temple in Kyoto -- also with an image gallery and curator interview.
Go to Museum Resource: http://archive.artsmia.org/art-of-asia/architecture/japanese-teahouse.cfm | |
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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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| Zen Buddhism |
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| Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
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An introduction to Zen, a form of Buddhism that emphasizes seeking one’s own Buddha nature through meditation. Download a Zen glossary and activity.
Go to Museum Resource: https://education.asianart.org/resources/zen-buddhism/ | |
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