East Asian Performing Arts and Personal Boundaries

Vocabulary flashcards reviewing Chinese, Japanese, and Korean performing arts, musical traditions, and concepts of personal boundaries and consent.

Red Facial Makeup (Peking Opera)

Represents loyalty, bravery, and heroism.

White Facial Makeup (Peking Opera)

Represents cunning, treachery, and dishonesty.

Black Facial Makeup (Peking Opera)

Represents nobility, integrity, and fierceness.

Costumes and Facial Makeup Purpose (Peking Opera)

Communicate the characters' personalities, traits, and roles to the audience without needing verbal explanations.

Improvised Props (Peking Opera)

Simple items that represent real-life objects (for example, holding and waving a stick represents riding a horse or holding a spear).

Artistic Medium

The physical materials used to create an artwork (e.g., rice paper, silk, clay).

Kabuki Theater

A form of traditional Japanese theater known for expressive acting, elaborate costumes, symbolic makeup, and traditional Japanese dance.

Onnagata

Male actors who specialize in playing female roles in Kabuki theater.

Red Kumadori Makeup

Kabuki makeup that represents strength, passion, and heroism.

Gagaku

Traditional Japanese court music featuring slow, stately rhythms.

Sho

A traditional Japanese bamboo mouth organ used in Gagaku (court music).

Hichiriki

A traditional Japanese double-reed pipe used in Gagaku (court music).

Contemporary Japanese Art

Art that blends traditional artistic techniques with modern emerging forms such as manga and anime.

Gayageum

A traditional Korean string instrument (zither with 12 or more silk strings) prominently used in Korean court and folk music.

Hyangak

Native, traditional Korean court music.

Gugak

The general term for traditional Korean music.

Consent

A clear, voluntary, and freely given permission by a person that must never be forced, assumed, or given due to pressure or fear.

Physical Boundaries

Personal limits regarding physical touch and personal space.

Loving / Appropriate / Respectful Touch

Contact done with mutual agreement and consent (e.g., high-fives after a game, handshakes, a pat on the back with permission).

Unloving / Inappropriate Touch

Contact done without permission or out of negative emotions (e.g., pushing a classmate out of frustration, grabbing someone, touching someone's waist unexpectedly).