Exam 12: Japanese Art Before 1333

What are the teachings of Pure Land Buddhism?

The Buddah Shaka and Attendant Bodhisattvas in the Horyukji Kondo demonstrates the aesthetic influence of Buddhist art from which country?

How does Zen Buddhist art differ from that of Esoteric and Pure Land Buddhism?

The ________________ indicates the extensive international exchange that took place during the Nara period.

What was a haniwa used for?

Discuss how Japan's changing relationship with China and Korea impacted its art and cultural development.

What subject matter commonly appears in Japanese secular paintings?

What cultural transformations occurred during the Asuka period?

What social changes occurred in the Yayoi period?

How does art of the Heian period demonstrate Japan's desire to be less culturally dependent on China?

Kosho's portrait sculpture of Kuya Preaching depicts six small Buddhas emerging from the monk's mouth to represent his __________.

What was the possible purpose of Jomon dogu?

Which cultural developments did NOT occur during the Asuka period?

Zen Buddhism's emphasis on individual enlightenment through meditation appealed to the self-disciplined nature of Japan's ____________class.

Which structure at Horyuji is not entered into because of its reliquary function?

Small humanoid figures made out of clay by the people of the middle and late Jomon period are called __________.

Raigo paintings in the Kamakura period were made in great numbers and used for what purpose?

The animal antics and court activities depicted in the Yamato-e handscroll Frolicking Animals from the Heian period are attributed to which artist's hand?

Why did the Heian era end, and what period followed?

What major religious sects emerged in the Heian period?