With each answer, you must reference at least one academic source.
In each answer, ensure that artworks themselves are your primary evidence to support your responses to the prompts.
1. How is court culture and court values reflected in the Tale of Genji illustrated text from the Heian period? While the Tale of Genji novel manifests select Heian principles, the illustrated text reveals much about the ideals and mores of the period. Please select at least one scene from the Heian illustration of this novel and conduct a visual analysis in which you demonstrate that cultural ideals of the Heian period are manifest in this illustrated text. Be sure to use vocabulary from the course.
2. Using 3 artworks as evidence, trace the history and evolution of the sects of Buddhism as they are adopted and absorbed into Japanese culture through the Heian period. Be sure to address political implications.
3. In what way do we see Shinto values carry forward in time to the Nara period, and how do we see them specifically manifest in architecture and visual culture that is oriented to Buddhist practice? Be sure to be as specific, clear, and concise as possible.
4. When we look at the visual culture of Japan from Neolithic to present day, we notice great diversity in styles and underlying values and belief systems. Why is this? What marks the art of Japan as unique from many cultures in East Asia?
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/shin/hd_shin.htm
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/heia/hd_heia.htm
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/kibr/hd_kibr.htm%20
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-sensualist-books-buruma
https://www.worldhistory.org/Tale_of_Genji/
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