Life in Medieval Japan

1. Life in Medieval Japan Chapter 5 Lesson 3

2. Question # 2Subject: Japan Describe what you think Japan culture was like. Put your answer under the question section.

3. I. Japanese Religion and Culture • During the Middle Ages there was a great exchange of ideas through many Japanese artists, scribes, traders, and diplomats who visited China. • The Chinese influenced literature, science, and religion. • Religion became an intricate part of their everyday life. Most Japanese adopted both Shinto and Buddhist beliefs. • Buddhism inspired many Japanese to produce paintings and to write both poems and plays

4. II. Art and Architecture • The arts of Japan revealed the Japanese love of beauty and simplicity. • Artisans made wooden statues, furniture, and household items with many of them having a shiny black and red coating called lacquer. • They used watercolors and ink to paint landscapes on paper scrolls or on silk. • The art of origami and arranged flowers became part of the culture. • Buddhist monks and the samurai turned tea drinking into a beautiful ceremony.

5. Japanese Wood Bath with Lacquer

6. Medieval Japanese Cabinet

7. Tea Ceremony The person enters and rinses his hands and mouth with water from a wooden dipper, guests crawl through a small passageway to enter the tea room. The guest clears their mind and prepares for the meal. The host enters and serves a light meal, which is followed by tea. Tea bowls are made by hand. The bowls are different according to summer and winter

8. Chanoyu : Tea Ceremony

9. Tea Ceremony Equipment Green Tea

10. A Japanese Tea Master

11. A Japanese Tea House

12. Origami : The Art of Japanese Paper Folding

13. Origami : The Art of Japanese Paper Folding

14. Ikebana : The Art of Japanese Flower Arranging • Tallest --> Heaven • Middle --> Man • Smallest --> Earth

15. III. Poems and Plays • During the Middle Ages the Japanese wrote poems, stories, and plays. • Japan’s oldest form of poetry was the tanka. The tanka was an unrhymed poem of five lines. They were to capture nature’s beauty and the joys and sorrows of life. • In the 1600’s a new form of poetry called the haiku developed.

16. Haiku : 17-syllable poem Spring departs.Birds cryFishes' eyes are filled with tears. Matsuo Basho, Master of Haiku

17. Poems and Plays continued.. • In 1000 A.D. a woman named Lady Murasaki Shikibu wrote Japan’s first novel. • It describes the adventures of a Japanese Prince. • Some believe it’s the world’s first novel, or long fictional story.

18. Lady Murasaki Shikibu

19. Tale of Genji (first novel)

20. Tale of Genji Scroll(first novel)

21. Plays and Poems Continued.. • The Japanese created plays. The oldest type of play is called Noh. • Created in the 1300’s, Noh plays were used to teach Buddhist ideas. • They danced, gestured, and chanted poetry to the music of drums and flutes.

22. Noh Theater Woman Heavenly-being Demonness TraditionalWeepingGesture  Old Man Warrior Demon God

23. Noh Theater The PlayAoi no Ue

24. Noh Theater :8-man chorus

25. Beauty in Japan • Hair: the longer the better! • Lightness of skin was admired. • Both women and men wore white powder. • Blackened teeth • Shaved eyebrows and painted false one.

26. Clothing Members of the court wore clothing embroidered with gold, silver, and multicolored thread Women wore 12 or more silk robes at a time, all tied with a single sash. The sleeve of each robe was different length so that the woman’s arm was a rainbow of colors.

27. Reflection # 2 List three new things you learned about Japanese culture! When you are done, share with the class!!