As the visual culture of modern Japan, manga (comics), anime (animation) and games are world-famous, but behind this is a long history of rich visual culture that spans over a thousand years. This course will introduce you about 1500 years of Japanese art history, from A.D. to the Edo period, before Western culture officially entered Japan in the 19th century. The lectures will use a lot of images to visually convey the whole picture of the classical Japanese visual culture.
CONTENTS
1. Introduction (4:08)
2. Stone age (5:26)
3. Arrival of Chinese culture and Buddhism (7:59)
4. New Buddhist statues and dawn of Manga (9:37)
5. Samurai era and the Realism (8:19)
6. Muromachi era: Japanese beauty flourished (10:47)
7. Edo era: National isolation period (10:51)