Asian art - test four terms

centrality

notion that you are at your best but have not over done it, is what the Qing dynasty wanted for their emperors

orthodox masters

literati who worked for the Manchu during the Qing Dyansty

i-men

literati who did not want to be under Manchu rule, felt the world had moved on without them, were individualist painters

flange

piece on the sides and over the top of the dotaku

pagoda

new version of a stupa in Japanese temples

kondo

worship building in Japanese temples

bays

subdivisions of Japanese temples

hip roof

roof that goes in on all four sides

gable roof

roof that goes in on two sides

Yakushi Buddha

healing buddha

secret image

image kept closed away and only opened to look at very infrequently

dry lacquer

make a wood armature, cover it in layers of cloth dipped in lacquer, once the lacquer is dry sand and carve it to create the shape, optional painting/decorating, take out the wooden form

hompashiki

very deeply carved drapery that seems to be rippling down

joined woodblock technique

putting multiple blocks of wood together to carve a figure from

kirigane

gluing gold leaf onto silk

Amida Raigo scene

scene in pure land buddhist art where you are taken to the pure land by bodhisattvas and apsaras after you die

mono no aware

aesthetic perception and feeling induced by the association between beauty and sorrow

e-maki

hand scroll

blown off roofs

perspective that you are looking into a room as though floating above it

 yamato-e

painting that is purely Japanese in style, rather than Chinese

onna-e

women’s painting

otoko-e

men’s painting

mappo

the 10000 year period where people do not understand the law of the Buddha

shogunate

Kamukura form of government, kind of like feudalism

shogun

like a king, military leader of the clan in charge in Kamakura government

daimyo

like a lord, runs land and is obedient to the shogun in Kamakura government

raigo scene

buddhist scene that shows a soul being taken to the pure land

koan

kinda like a riddle, has no answer and is meant to make you think

haboku

“broken ink” style of painting, created by Sesshu

fusuma

sliding doors, wood frame with paper that is painted on both sides

byobu

folding screen, painted

namban painting

Japanese painting that has adopted styalistic elements of western painting

tarashikomi

Rimpa school, wet on wet painting technique

yoshiwara, kabuki theater, and landscapes

three main subjects of ukiyo-e prints

obi

sash, tied in the front for prostetutes and the back for other women