JAPANESE CULTURE: FINE ARTS BEHIND THE CLOSED DOOR

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• JAPANESE CULTURE FINE ARTS BEHIND THE CLOSED
  DOOR

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JAPAN GEOGRAPHY

• STRING OF VOLCANIC ISLANDS... 4 LARGE, 1000 SMALL
• SUBJECT TO ERUPTIONS, EARTHQUAKE, TYPHOONS, AND
  TIDAL WAVES

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JAPAN GEOGRAPHY

• A COUNTRY OF BREATH- TAKING BEAUTY
• TOWERING MOUNTAINS
• LACED WITH LAKES AND LUSH VALLEYS

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JAPAN GEOGRAPHY

• TEMPERATE CLIMATE WARMED BY GULF STREAM
• DEPENDABLE RAINFALL YEAR ROUND

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• THE COMBINATION OF BEAUTY CATASTRO- PHE
  REFLECTS THE JAP- ANESE CHARACTER DELICACY AND
  BELLIGERENCE

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GEOGRAPHIC BOUNDARIES NATIONAL CULTURE

• KOREAN STRAIT BARRIER GAVE JAPAN SEMI-ISOLA-
  TION
• PLACED JAPAN WITHIN CHINESE CULTURAL AREA YET
  STILL SET APART

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GEOGRAPHIC BOUNDARIES




NATIONAL CULTURE

• DURING CERTAIN PERIODS BROAD STREAMS OF
  KNOWLEDGE, LITERATURE, AND RELIGION FLOWED FROM
  CHINA TO JAPAN

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GEOGRAPHIC BOUNDARIES




NATIONAL CULTURE

• AT OTHER TIMES, THE FLOW WAS SHUT OFF FROM ONE
  SIDE OR THE OTHER
• ONE THING IS FOR SURE....

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ISOLATION OR NOT, JAPAN DEVELOPED ON ITS OWN.
EVERYTHING THAT CAME FROM CHINA, FROM HOUSE- HOLD
ARTS TO PHILOSOPHY, WAS RESHAPED TO SUIT JAPANESE
TASTES AND NEEDS
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JAPANS EARLY HISTORY

• ARCHEOLOGISTS HAVE DISCOVERED ARTIFACTS SUCH AS
  WEAPONS AND POTTERY
• HUNTERS AND FISHERS 30,000 YEARS AGO

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BUT.....

• LEGENDS HAVE CREATED A MORE COLORFUL ACCOUNT
  WHICH INTRI-GUES US WITH SYMBOLIC VALUES
• READ HANDOUT 63 NOW

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