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Chapter 8 Section 2 Visual Art,
Architecture, Performing Arts in Japan
By Jonathan Elbaz, Olivia Lee, and Patty Bandellin
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Notes
When the text is red, take notes, but when the
text white, just listen.
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Introduction

• Japanese nobles of Heian wanted to be surrounded
  by beauty elegance. They created a great center
  of learning and culture. This period was called
  the golden age of the arts and included fashion,
  literature, visual art, architecture, and
  performing arts.

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Visual Arts

• Popular painting, calligraphy, architecture
• Paintings - bright bold colors
• - represented scenes from
• stories, nature, court life
• - on paper doors furniture,
• scrolls, fans,
• Calligraphy
• - decorative writing
• - Poems looked as beautiful as they
• sounded.

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Architecture

• Nobles wanted to make their city beautiful
• Copied Chinese architecture - greatly admired
• - Heian city model of Changan
• Building style ends of wooden frame curved
  upward, natural, airy feel
• - Elegant gardens ponds, still popular
• today.

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Performing Arts

• Popular
• - Performances - musicians, jugglers acrobats.
• - Plays actors mimicked people.
• developed into drama called Noh
• - Noh plays
• 1.combines music, speaking, dance
• 2. teaches about great heroes of
  Japans past.

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Conclusion

• Japans nobles created the golden age of art.
  Next, Buddhism develops throughout Japan, along
  with the nobles arts.

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Bibliography
Anaïs Teyton, Selena Ortega, Miharu Sugie
Thank You
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