Transcript Arts of the Samurai

Code of the Samurai in Art
and Literature
Battles at Ichi-no-tani and Yashima, from The
Tales of the Heike, approx. 1650–1700. Japan. Edo
period (1615–1868). Six-panel screen, ink and
colors on gold. The Avery Brundage Collection,
B63D8+.
• What is this object? How was it used?
• What is depicted here?
• What is the mood of this picture?
• What do you see that makes you say that?
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Battles at Ichi-no-tani and Yashima (detail; B63D8+).
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Battles at Ichi-no-tani and Yashima (detail; B63D8+).
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Battles at Ichi-no-tani and Yashima (detail; B63D8+).
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Battle at Awazuhara, from The Tales of the Heike, 1650–1700. Japan. Edo period (1615–1868). Pair of six-panel screens, ink, colors, and gold on paper. The
Avery Brundage Collection, B60D60+.
• What is happening in this painting?
• What values might this painting reflect?
• What do you see that makes you say that?
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The First Man Across the Uji River, from The Tales of the Heike, 1650-1700. Japan. Edo period (1615–1868). Pair of six-panel screens, ink, colors, and gold on
paper. The Avery Brundage Collection, B60D61+.
• What is happening in this painting?
• What values might this painting reflect?
• What do you see that makes you say that?
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Scene from The Storehouse
of Loyalty (Chushingura),
1806, by Hokusai (1760–
1849). Japan. Edo period
(1615–1868). Woodblock
print, ink and colors on
paper. Gift of Japanese
Prints from the Collection of
Emmeline Johnson, Donated
by Oliver and Elizabeth
Johnson, 1994.45.
• What is happening in this picture?
• How was this object made?
• What do you see that makes you say that?
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