University of Tokyo - Words Spun Out of Images: Visual and Literary Culture in Nineteenth Century Japan
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Duration | 30 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
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Credential | Certificate |
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Words Spun Out of Images: Visual and Literary Culture in Nineteenth Century Japan at Coursera Course details
- In their ambition to capture ?real life,? Japanese painters, poets, novelists and photographers of the nineteenth century collaborated in ways seldom explored by their European contemporaries. This course offers learners the chance to encounter and appreciate behavior, moral standards and some of the material conditions surrounding Japanese artists in the nineteenth century, in order to renew our assumptions about what artistic ?realism? is and what it meant.
- Learners will walk away with a clear understanding of how society and the individual were conceived of and represented in early modern Japan. Unlike contemporary western art forms, which acknowledge their common debt as "sister arts" but remain divided by genre and discourse, Japanese visual and literary culture tended to combine, producing literary texts inspired by visual images, and visual images which would then be inscribed with poems and prose. Noticing and being able to interpret this indivisibility of visual/literary cultures is essential in understanding the social and psychological values embedded within the beauty of Japanese art.
Words Spun Out of Images: Visual and Literary Culture in Nineteenth Century Japan at Coursera Curriculum
Samurai Portraits
1-1 Introduction
1-2 "Portrait of Sat? Issai" by Watanabe Kazan I
1-3 "Portrait of Sat? Issai" by Watanabe Kazan II
1-4 "Portrait of Sat? Issai" by Watanabe Kazan III
1-5 Representation of Reality in Literatures I
1-6 Representation of Reality in Literatures II
1-7 Watanabe Kazan's Representation of Reality
1-8 Chinese Quatrain by Rai Mikisabur?
1-9 "Portrait of Yoshida Sh?in" by Matsura Sh?d? I
1-10 "Portrait of Yoshida Sh?in" by Matsura Sh?d? II
1-11 Yoshida Sh?in and His Writings I
1-12 Yoshida Sh?in and His writings II
Course Description
Practice Quiz 1-1
Practice Quiz 1-2
Practice Quiz 1-3
Practice Quiz 1-4
Practice Quiz 1-5
Practice Quiz 1-6
Practice Quiz 1-7
Practice Quiz 1-8
Practice Quiz 1-9
Practice Quiz 1-10
Practice Quiz 1-11
Practice Quiz 1-12
Module 1 Graded Quiz
Painted Beauties
2-1 "Portrait of a Geisha" by Watanabe Kazan I
2-2 "Portrait of a Geisha" by Watanabe Kazan II
2-3 "Portrait of a Geisha" by Watanabe Kazan III
2-4 "A Courtesan" by Takahashi Yuichi I
2-5 "A Courtesan" by Takahashi Yuichi II
2-6 "The Courtesan Usugumo of the Miura House at the Age of 89"
2-7 Beauties in Ukiyo-e I
2-8 Beauties in Ukiyo-e II
2-9 Beauties in Writings I
2-10 Beauties in Writings II
2-11 "Beauty in the Painting" by Matsumoto F?ko I
2-12 "Beauty in the Painting" by Matsumoto F?ko II
2-13 Beauties in Photographs I
2-14 Beauties in Photographs II
Practice Quiz 2-1
Practice Quiz 2-2
Practice Quiz 2-3
Practice Quiz 2-4
Practice Quiz 2-5
Practice Quiz 2-6
Practice Quiz 2-7
Practice Quiz 2-8
Practice Quiz 2-9
Practice Quiz 2-10
Practice Quiz 2-11
Practice Quiz 2-12
Practice Quiz 2-13
Practice Quiz 2-14
Module 2 Graded Quiz
The Literary Photograph I
3-1 "Calligraphy and Painting Gathering in Satte Post Town" by Yoda Chikkoku I
3-2 "On Reading" by Miyaoi Yasuo I
3-3 "On Reading" by Miyaoi Yasuo II
3-4 "Calligraphy and Painting Gathering in Satte Post Town" by Yoda Chikkoku II
3-5 Inscribed Photographs I
3-6 Inscribed Photographs II
3-7 Masaoka Shiki and Post Meiji-Restoration Writers I
3-8 Masaoka Shiki and Post Meiji-Restoration Writers II
Practice Quiz 3-1
Practice Quiz 3-2
Practice Quiz 3-3
Practice Quiz 3-4
Practice Quiz 3-5
Practice Quiz 3-6
Practice Quiz 3-7
Practice Quiz 3-8
Module3 Graded Quiz
The Literary Photograph II
4-1 Inscribed Photographs III
4-2 Portrait of Niijima Yae
4-3 Picture Postcard I
4-4 Picture Postcard II
4-5 Letters from Nagai Kaf?
4-6 ?Strange Tale from East of the River? by Nagai Kaf? I
4-7 ?Strange Tale from East of the River? by Nagai Kaf? II
4-8 Course Summary I
4-9 Course Summary II
Practice Quiz 4-1
Practice Quiz 4-2
Practice Quiz 4-3
Practice Quiz 4-4
Practice Quiz 4-5
Practice Quiz 4-6
Practice Quiz 4-7
Practice Quiz 4-8
Practice Quiz 4-9
Module 4 Graded Quiz
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