Asian Art History Final

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Luohan (arkhat in Sanskrit)

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One who is worthy or a perfected person, having attained nirvana. Far advanced on path to enlightebment but may not have reached full buddhahood.

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Maebyong

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Korean vessels with a small slightly curled mouth/rim, short neck, round shoulder, constricted waist. Plum vase.

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Gabi-sari aesthetic

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Centered in the acceptance of transience and imperfection. Beauty that is imperfect, in permanent and incomplete.

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Kano School

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Dominant style from 15th to 19th century, worked for nobility, shoguns and emporers in a wide range of style and format

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Wu School

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A group of Chinese painters active in the second half of the 15th and early half of the 16th centuries. Scholar artists who through literati painting perpetuated the attitudes of former artists such as the 4 masters of the yuan dynasty

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Polychrome woodblock print

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Used popularly during the Edo period, provided mass production of single pieces of art work, popularized art with lower class citizens

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Dong Qichang

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A Chinese painter 1555-1636. Set forward ideas that continue to influence Chinese aesthetics, divided into the northern and southern schools of art

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Katsushika Hokusai

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Japanese artist and printmaking of the Edo period, 1760-1849. Thirty six views of mount fuji

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Pojagi

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Traditional Korean wrapping cloth, made from variety of materials, very colorful.

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Ru ware

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Chinese pottery from the song dynasty.

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Chan Buddhism

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MeditAtion and Buddhist awakening are importAnt in this school of Buddhism.

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Chasitsu

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Tea room used for the tea ceremony

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Samurai

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A member of the military in Japan practicing the code of conduct of Bushido.

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Zhe School

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Part of the northern Scholl that thrived during the Ming dynasty. Painters did not formulate new styles preferring southern song style focusing on decorative large paintings

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Kei school

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Japanese school of Buddhist sculpture during the early kamakara period, influential from the 14th to 19th century

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Ukiyo-e

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A school of Japanese art depicting subjects of everyday life popular in the 17th to 19th centuries

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Raku ware

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A type of Japanese potery traditionally used for tea ceremonies, chawan tea bowls

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Sessho Toyo

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Influential Japanese artist from 1420 to 1506, master of ink wash painting, Zen Buddhist priest

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Kare sansui

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Japanese rock garden, sometimes called Zen garden, consisting of a dry landscape and carefully composed arrangements, sometimes represent wAter

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Sim Saimdang

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Korean artist, calligraphic and poet from 1504 to 51, mother of conscious scholar Yi I. Known for being role model example of a woman and mother, wise mother