EAS103H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Bai Juyi, Murasaki Shikibu, Lantingji Xu
23 Mar 2017
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How did they diverge from it: what kind of impact did chinese writing have on elite life in heian japan (as evidence in. Murasaki"s diary: designing a writing system, purely mathematical variation, completely unique characters, compromise modular characters. Stroke: radial, character, text, kind of like the terrocotta soldiers- look unique but not, orchid pavilion preface (353ad) by wang xizhi 307-365 (pg64 textbook, writing to art, scribe to calligrapher. Choe chiwon b857- went to china at age 12, passed examination and returned to silla and called for reforms. Fashion: entertainment- polo, literary culture in the tang. Statesmen-poets: poetry=form of social language and creative ritual, ~50 000 tang poems survive (1/3 of original, bai juyi 772-846. Famous in his own time in china: wrote over 2000 poems, widely known in japan, murasaki shikibu- the tale of genji. Supposedly edited by confucius: review of early japan. Show writing practice passages from the analects: also excavated in south korea near pusan.
