Japanese style that influenced artists such as Manet, Whistler, Degas, Mary Cassatt, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Toulouse-Lautrec.
What is Japanese wood block printing(Japonisme)?
100
The Bhuddist state that the monk is trying to reach in Kano Motonobu's "Zen Patriarch Xiangyen Zhixian".
What is Enlightenment?
100
This ceremony influenced the construction of structures such as Sen No Rikyu's "Taian teahouse".
What is the tea ceremony?
100
The era which was ruled by the Ashikaga family. During this era, Zen Bhuddism had a great effect in Japanese art.
What is the Muromachi period?
100
Momoyama painters used this to cover walls with so that it looks more extravagant.
(hint: same material used for the dome of the Dome of the Rock)
What is gold leaf?
200
The style that was adapted by the Japanese from the Chinese to think more intellectually and changed Japanese art
What is the literati style?
200
This famous novel by Lady Murasaki Shikibu was influenced by Buddhism and Japanese artistic styles.
What is "Tale of Genji"?
200
In every Japanese structure during the 16th century, this served as a floor mat in order to practice the Japanese custom of not taking shoes into the house.
What is the tatami?
200
Th era when daimyos struggled for power. Art at this time was extravagant and architecture were usually covered with gold leafs.
What is the Momoyama period?
200
They are most likely to be the practitioners of Japanese Art.
Who are monkas and samurais?
300
The two major painting schools in Japan from the 15th to 16th century.
What are the Tosa School and the Kano School?
300
Animals that serve as motif to symbolize power that was influenced by the Chinese culture.
What are Chinese lions?
300
Structural buildings that are used for practicing Zen principles.
What are Zen temples?
300
Art during this period revolved around the tea ceremony. In the 1630's, during this period, the outside world was cut off which preserved traditional conventions of Japanese art.
What is the Edo period?
300
This style was created from mixing Western art with Japanese style.
What is nihonga?
400
Japanese style of painting by loading the brush with ink and dripping it or rigorously brushing it on paper.
What is splashed-ink style?
400
A genre of Japanese painting and printing that usually depicts ordinary leisure of the people.
What is ukiyo-e?
400
Substances used by Kenzo Tange for the stadium of the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo.
What are concrete and steel?
400
During these periods, democracy was introduced in Japan which had an influence in Japanese art. These eras coincided with the Impressionists, Expressionists, Art Deco and Art Nouveau style in Europe.
What is the Meiji and Taisho periods?
400
A shared concept by artists who paint nature, to observe and paint nature as it is.
What is naturalism?
500
This new medium of painting from Western art, became famous in Japan dueing the 19th century.
(hint: Van Eyck first used this)
What is oil painting?
500
This style was used in painting trees and nature(which were important aspects of Zen Bhuddism), that drops ink and pigments onto wet surfaces.
What is tarashikomi?
500
This villa, built around 1620-1663, served as a villa, a teahouse and was built in the domestic Japanese style. It is located in Kyoto.
What is the Katsura Imperial Villa?
500
During this period, the emperor was Michinomiya Hirohito
(emperor during WWII).
What is the Showa period?
500
This artist painted "The Great Wave off Okanawa" that was influenced by Western techniques.