Japanese Art Final
1853-1867
Bakumatsu period
"alternate attendance" policy
Sankin kotai
1894-1895
Sino-Japanese War
array of economic policies to resolve perceived problems in military, economic, agricultural, financial, religious systems shunga banned, luxury prints, bust portraits discouraged limited number of colors in prints
Tenpô Reforms of 1841-1843
tool used to print the inked block
baren
beautiful woman picture
bijinga
gradation technique of applying colors, especially Prussian blue
bokashi
literati painting
bunjinga
paintings on multipanel folding screens, typically created in pairs
byôbu
ornamental doorway
chodaigamae
merchant class in edo
chonin
genre of painting
enso
ukiyo
floating world (theater and brothel entertainment district)
ukiyo-e
floating world picture
painting on sliding doors
fusuma
"official painter"
goyô eshi
bomb-affected people
hibakusha
central enclosure
honmaru
central room
hôjô
bird and flower painting
kachoga
bird-and-flower painting
kachôga
undulating gable used on gates and entryways
karahafu
main block of the multiblock process
key block
town painter
machi eshi
rising class of the merchant elite especially in kyoto
machishu
1868
meiji restoration
famous places
meisho
famous place pictures
meisho-e
pose
mie
modern girl
moga
boneless
mokkotsu
crest
mon
murky style
morotai
southern painting
nanga
Japanese style painting
nihonga
brocade pictures
nishiki-e
male actors who play female roles
onnagata
censoring what could be said about WWII etc
press code (1945-1952)
"locked country" policy
sakoku
copying from nature
shaseiga
"wait a minute!"
shibaraku
new prints
shin handa
true view
shinkeizu
style of residential architecture
shoin
erotic prints "spring"
shunga
collective term for paintings on fusuma and byôbu
shôhekiga
creative prints
sosaku hanga
dripping in
tarashikomi
castle keep
tenshu
built in alcove desk
tsuke shoin
technique (no outline) subcategory of mokkotsu
tsuketate
actor prints
yakusha-e
western painting
yôfuga or yôga
zen painting
zenga
grand audience hall
ôhiroma
