japanese arts and music
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This is a presentation of different Japanese Arts like painting, sculpture, ukiyoe and others. It includes the Japanese music and different instrument and the different Japanese dance and also theatre performances like Noh, kabuki and puppet showTRANSCRIPT
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Paintings1. Scroll Painting (Emaki)2. Screen and Partition
Painting (Shoheiga)3. Buddhist Painting (Batsuga)4. Ink Painting (Suibokuga)5. Literal Painting (Bunjinga)
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• Sometimes called ekotoba• contains pictures rendered on a
handscroll which opens horizontally• They sometimes contain written
explanatory comments (kotobagaki)
• Designed to be viewed in sequence when unrolled from right to left.
Scroll Painting (Emaki)
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Heiji Monogatari Emaki(Illustrated Stories about the Heiji Civil War)
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Genji Monogatari Emaki (The Tale of Genji Handscroll)
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Screen and Partition Painting (Shoheiga)
• “shoheiga" includes pictorial decoration applied either to partitions (shoheki) or to screens (byobu)
• "partition decoration" (shohekiga) denotes paintings on tsuitate (single-leaf screens), fusuma (sliding door or wall panels), ceiling panels, and cryptomeria doors as well as paintings on paper applied to walls
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Screen Painting of Kyoto and Environs
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• Refers to mandalas and painted representations of Buddhist deities used as objects of worship
• It refers to all paintings that have some relationship to Buddhism
Buddhist Painting(Batsuga)
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Ryokai Mandar
a (Mandalas of the
Two Realms)
Kongokai mandara
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• These are paintings done in black ink (sumi), in which nuances are expressed through variations in brush techniques and through contrasted shadings of ink.
Ink Painting (Suibokuga)
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Landscape of Autumn and
Winter
Hawks and Pines
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• This genre includes paintings produced by intellectuals as a hobby or a complement to their literary interests.
Literal Painting(Bunjinga)
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Ukiyoe• literally, "pictures of the floating world“• Paintings depicting manners and
customs done on many fusuma (sliding partitions)
• Originated with the experiments of producing woodblock prints of beautiful
women.
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Sculpture•called a "material-dependent
art" •made from bronze or a single
piece of wood•and had Buddhist connotation
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• The earliest forms of music were drums and flute music
• gagaku ancient court music• Sho (free-reed mouth organ),
hichiriki (cyndrical oboe),the biwa lute, and the koto zither.
• shamisen (three-stringed plucked lute)
Japanese Music
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Gagaku Performance
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Sho
The upper
part has 17
bamboo pipes of differen
t lengths.
Hichiriki It is a single bamboo pipe about 18 cm long with 7 finger-holes on the front and 2 on the back. Thin strips of cherry bark are wrapped around it between the holes.
Instrument Used In Gagaku Court Music
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Instrument Used In Gagaku Court Music
Gakuso formally called So
Gakubiwi 4-stringed lute
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Japanese Dance• Kagura (dance of the gods) is the
oldest form of dance in Japan• Gigaku, masked dance-drama• Bugaku (court dance)• Sarugaku, an acrobatic or circus-
like performance• Shinbuyo, New Dance
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Kagura Dance
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Gigaku Dance
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Bugaku Dance
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Kabuki• designed to entertain an audience with
dramatic dialogue and dance of male actors
• accompanied by drums, flutes, stringed instruments called shamisen and chanting
• plays to the rapid clapping of wooden clappers
• average length of a performance is (5) five hours, including intermissions
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Noh and Kyogan• a poetic dance-drama performed in
ancient language with highly ritualized movements along
• Kyogen are straightforward plays dealing with ordinary people in the real world
• a wooden structure with a Shinto shrine-style curved roof (no stage curtain )
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Noh and Kyogan• Actors are not more than three and
plays two 30-minute comic kyogen in between play
• themes are generally Buddhist, • the main message is that man should
not become attached to the world, for it is a world of illusion
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Bunraku
• a sophisticated puppet theater written and performed for adult audiences with cultivated sensibilities
• puppets are one-half to full life-size. • Each major character is jointly
manipulated by 3 puppeteers, who appear on stage in full view of the audience.
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Bunraku• The main puppeteer generally appears
bare-faced, while the others are "invisible" in black hoods.
• The main puppeteer manipulates the eyelids, eyeballs, eyebrows, mouth, and the right arm.
• A first assistant operates the left arm only, and a second assistant the legs.
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THE ENDVenus and Cindy