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Code of the Samurai in Art and Literature

Code of the Samurai in Art and Literature. 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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Code of the Samurai in Art and Literature

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  1. Code of the Samurai in Art and Literature

  2. 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? 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+.

  3. Battles at Ichi-no-tani and Yashima (detail; B63D8+).

  4. Battles at Ichi-no-tani and Yashima (detail; B63D8+).

  5. Battles at Ichi-no-tani and Yashima (detail; B63D8+).

  6. 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?

  7. 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?

  8. 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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