Library Guides: Japan under the Shôguns: Art & Culture

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Brief, basic information laid out in an easy-to-read format. May use informal language. (Includes most news articles)

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Provides additional background information and further reading. Introduces some subject-specific language.

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Lengthy, detailed information. Frequently uses technical/subject-specific language. (Includes most analytical articles)

General Capabilities

Replace the following with the Victorian Curriculum General Capabilities from teacher's documentation on Rubicon Atlas.

Enduring Understandings

Students will form some understanding of Japanese history and culture. They will come to understand the implications of contact between cultures and the threat caused to non-European cultures of European imperialism.

Essential Questions

What was Japanese society like before and during the reign of the shoguns?
What led to the rise of the Shoguns?
How did Japan change under the rule of the shoguns?

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Japan under the Shoguns | Art & Culture: Keywords

Click on the terms to access a simple definition from JLearn.net. The JLearn online dictionary provides a simple definition in English as well as the word in Kanji and Kana. You can also listen to how the word is pronounced.

Gaka 画家, Hanga 版画, Hitofude 一筆, Ukiyoe 浮世絵

Japan under the Shoguns | Art & Culture: Articles

Hokusai, (Britannica Middle, n.d.)
"With his famous print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, Japanese master artist and printmaker Hokusai marked the peak in the history of the Japanese landscape print. He produced about 35,000 drawings and prints throughout his 70 years of artistic creation. Hokusai’s early works represent the full spectrum of the type of art known as ukiyo-e (“pictures of the floating world”)." (“Hokusai”, n.d.)

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Reference / citation: “Hokusai”, (n.d.) or (“Hokusai”, n.d.)
Reference list / Bibliography: Hokusai. (n.d.). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from https://bt-libproxy.mentonegirls.vic.edu.au/levels/middle/article/Hokusai/326474

Japan under the Shoguns | Art & Culture: eBooks

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Super Simple Japanese Art: Fun and Easy Art from Around the World by Alex Kuskowski
ISBN: 9781629684130
Publication Date: 2014
Get ready to go on an art exploration and introduce kids to Japanese culture with a creative twist. Super Simple Japanese Art includes enjoyable and unique crafts adapted from Japan, just for kids. They will learn to construct a bonsai tree, try block printing, make an origami box and more. Step-by-step activities presented with how-to photos make following along easy for young crafters. Go on a cultural art adventure today! Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

A History of Japanese Art by Noritake Tsuda; Patricia Graham (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781462916788
Publication Date: 2015
A History of Japanese Artt offers readers a comprehensive view of Japanese art through Japanese eyes--a view that is the most revealing of all perspectives. At the same time, it provides readers with a guide to the places in Japan where the best and most representative creations of Japanese art are to be seen.
Japanese Woodblock Prints: Artists, Publishers and Masterworks: 1680 - 1900 by Andreas Marks; Stephen Addiss (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9784805310557
Publication Date: 2010
Japanese woodblock prints, or ukiyo-e, are the most recognizable Japanese art form. Their massive popularity has spread from Japan to be embraced by a worldwide audience. Covering the period from the beginning of the Japanese woodblock print in the 1680s until the year 1900, Japanese Woodblock Prints provides a detailed survey of all the famous ukiyo-e artists, along with over 500 full-color prints. Unlike previous examinations of this art form, Japanese Woodblock Prints includes detailed histories of the publishers of woodblock prints--who were often the driving force determining which prints, and therefore which artists, would make it into mass circulation for a chance at critical and popular success. Invaluable as a guide for ukiyo-e enthusiasts looking for detailed information about their favorite Japanese woodblock print artists and prints, it is also an ideal introduction for newcomers to the world of the woodblock print. This lavishly illustrated book will be a valued addition to the libraries of scholars, as well as the general art enthusiast.

Japan under the Shoguns | Art & Culture: Online resources

Ukiyo-e Japanese woodblock print search This link opens in a new window
Ukiyo-e Search provides the ability to both search for Japanese woodblock prints by simply taking a picture of an existing print AND the ability to see similar prints across multiple collections of prints. The database currently contains over 213,000 prints from 24 institutions.

Hokusai (Google Art & Culture, n.d.)
Explore collections of Hokusai’s work with Google Arts & Culture, created by the Google Cultural Institute.

"Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. Born in Edo, Hokusai is best known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji which includes the internationally iconic print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa."

Japanese prints, pre-1915 (Library of Congress, n.d.)
"The Library's Prints and Photographs Division houses more than 2,500 woodblock prints and drawings by Japanese artists of the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries including Hiroshige, Kuniyoshi, Sadahide, and Yoshiiku." (Library of Congress, n.d.) ubjects frequently depicted in the prints include:
* actors * women * landscapes * scenes from Japanese literature * daily life * views of Western foreigners.

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Don't forget to reference the images you use. Use the Library of Congress 'Cite this item' tool located below each image.
Image source: Utagawa, K. Nihonbashi Yori Fuji O Miru Zu. Fuji Japan Mount Nihonbashi River, None. [Between 1810 and 1830] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2009615603/
Arts of Japan (Asian Art Museum Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture, n.d.)
Japanese art from the collection of the Asian Art Museum. The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco houses one of the most comprehensive Asian art collections in the world, with more than 18,000 works of art in its permanent collection.
Japanese painting (Museum of Fine Arts Boston, n.d.)
"Including over three thousand works, chiefly acquired by Ernest Fenollosa and William Sturgis Bigelow, the collection is known for select ink paintings dating to the fifteenth century by artists associated with Zen monasteries, comprehensive holdings of Kano-school and Ukiyo-e painting, and the narrative handscrolls: Minister Kibi's Trip to China and The Burning of the Sanjô Palace." (Museum of Fine Arts Boston, n.d.)
Yokohama Boomtown (Visualizing Cultures, MIT, 2008)
Foreigners in treaty port Japan (1859-1872). "The Yokohama prints are as excellent a source as one can find for gaining insight into the “first impressions” of the foreigners that were made available to ordinary Japanese." (Visualizing Cultures, MIT, 2008)

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"Visualizing Cultures weds images and scholarly commentary in innovative ways to illuminate social and cultural history. Founded in 2002 by MIT Professors John Dower and Shigeru Miyagawa, Visualizing Cultures exploits the unique qualities of the Web as a publishing platform to enable scholars, teachers, and others to: (1) examine large bodies of previously inaccessible images; (2) compose original texts with unlimited numbers of full-color, high-resolution images; and (3) use new technology to explore unprecedented ways of analyzing and presenting images that open windows on modern history." (Visualizing Cultures, MIT, 2008)

Japan under the Shoguns | Art & Culture: Videos

Videos
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Level 1 resource Film and video Using YouTube on campus help and instructions To view this video on campus remember to first login to your school Google account using your mConnect username and password. Click here for more help on using YouTube on campus.

Hitofude-ryu is a traditional way of painting in Japan. It is the practice of painting the torso of a dragon in a single stroke.

Source

When using this video don't forget to cite and reference your sources. For more information and help see the Kerferd Library referencing guide and / or CiteMaker.
In text reference / citation: National Geographic (2018) or (National Geographic, 2018)
Bibliography / Reference list: National Geographic (2018). The Art of Single Stroke Painting in Japan, [eVideo]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/g7H8IhGZnpM