VIS 21B Study Guide - Final Guide: Vanishing Point, Japanese Language, Mattress
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Feel free to add your own notes and pictures! Shinto: japan"s indigenous religious belief system and encompasses a variety of ritual practices to kami. Kami: sacred spirits that take the form of things and concepts important to life like wind, rain, mountain, trees, rivers, and fertility. Amaterasu: goddess of the sun; symbol of royal family. Pagoda: (in this case, japanese interpretation of the chinese pagoda,which in and of itself is a chinese interpretation of the stupa from india. *from slides: pagoda: both reliquary for holding remains and a diagram of relation between heaven and earth, the buddha and humans. Architecture: a combo of chinese watchtower and hindu stupa. Yamato-e- handscroll painting style japan/focus on love stories, psychology of heian court life, visual features are on gold background, colorful and decorative. Kara-e- handscroll painting style china/depicts chinese landscape/exotic topics, satire of public sphere/emphasis on ink, brushwork, monochrome.
