Words Spun Out of Images: Visual and Literary Culture in Nineteenth Century Japan
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Words Spun Out of Images: Visual and Literary Culture in Nineteenth Century Japan
The University of Tokyo
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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.
Habilidades que você terá
Art HistoryPoetry WritingArtHistory
Programa - O que você aprenderá com este curso
Week
1Samurai Portraits
One good way to gauge the distance between literary and visual culture in early modern Japan is to examine the ways in which painters and poets depicted their contemporaries. Portraits of samurai are especially rich in information about how men at the top of the social ladder wished to be “viewed” as physical entities, and how they expressed themselves as moral actors within society. In the first module, we will learn the basic formal aspects of samurai portraiture, and at the same time begin to interpret poems and prose inscribed onto the images themselves.
12 vídeos (Total de 102 min), 1 leitura, 13 testes
12 videos
1-1 Introduction9min
1-2 "Portrait of Satō Issai" by Watanabe Kazan I9min
1-3 "Portrait of Satō Issai" by Watanabe Kazan II7min
1-4 "Portrait of Satō Issai" by Watanabe Kazan III8min
1-5 Representation of Reality in Literatures I9min
1-6 Representation of Reality in Literatures II8min
1-7 Watanabe Kazan's Representation of Reality9min
1-8 Chinese Quatrain by Rai Mikisaburō11min
1-9 "Portrait of Yoshida Shōin" by Matsura Shōdō I8min
1-10 "Portrait of Yoshida Shōin" by Matsura Shōdō II6min
1-11 Yoshida Shōin and His Writings I6min
1-12 Yoshida Shōin and His writings II6min
1 leituras
Course Description10min
13 exercícios práticos
Practice Quiz 1-12min
Practice Quiz 1-22min
Practice Quiz 1-32min
Practice Quiz 1-42min
Practice Quiz 1-52min
Practice Quiz 1-62min
Practice Quiz 1-72min
Practice Quiz 1-82min
Practice Quiz 1-92min
Practice Quiz 1-102min
Practice Quiz 1-112min
Practice Quiz 1-122min
Module 1 Graded Quiz36min
Week
2Painted Beauties
Visual images of women produced in Japan before the introduction of photography can be divided into two types: portraits of women who actually existed in society, and painted or printed images of idealized “beauties,” whose resemblance to physical reality was subsumed often to an intense interest in mode and situational aspect. Like samurai portraits, images of women, both real and imagined, would often be inscribed with texts which instruct viewers how to understand and appreciate them. In this module, we will overview several painted and printed images, and learn how contemporary viewers used these images and their texts as a tool to understand the world.
14 vídeos (Total de 105 min), 15 testes
14 videos
2-2 "Portrait of a Geisha" by Watanabe Kazan II11min
2-3 "Portrait of a Geisha" by Watanabe Kazan III9min
2-4 "A Courtesan" by Takahashi Yuichi I6min
2-5 "A Courtesan" by Takahashi Yuichi II7min
2-6 "The Courtesan Usugumo of the Miura House at the Age of 89"8min
2-7 Beauties in Ukiyo-e I6min
2-8 Beauties in Ukiyo-e II5min
2-9 Beauties in Writings I6min
2-10 Beauties in Writings II8min
2-11 "Beauty in the Painting" by Matsumoto Fūko I9min
2-12 "Beauty in the Painting" by Matsumoto Fūko II2min
2-13 Beauties in Photographs I7min
2-14 Beauties in Photographs II9min
15 exercícios práticos
Practice Quiz 2-12min
Practice Quiz 2-22min
Practice Quiz 2-32min
Practice Quiz 2-42min
Practice Quiz 2-52min
Practice Quiz 2-62min
Practice Quiz 2-72min
Practice Quiz 2-82min
Practice Quiz 2-92min
Practice Quiz 2-102min
Practice Quiz 2-112min
Practice Quiz 2-122min
Practice Quiz 2-132min
Practice Quiz 2-142min
Module 2 Graded Quiz42min
Week
3The Literary Photograph I
What methods did early modern Japanese artists and writers have at hand to “capture the moment,” and how did these methods influence the introduction and adaption of western photography in the mid-nineteenth century? In this module we will see how photographic modes of representation were assimilated into the literary tradition of portraiture, which was covered in modules 1 and 2.
8 vídeos (Total de 75 min), 9 testes
8 videos
3-2 "On Reading" by Miyaoi Yasuo I9min
3-3 "On Reading" by Miyaoi Yasuo II11min
3-4 "Calligraphy and Painting Gathering in Satte Post Town" by Yoda Chikkoku II8min
3-5 Inscribed Photographs I11min
3-6 Inscribed Photographs II8min
3-7 Masaoka Shiki and Post Meiji-Restoration Writers I12min
3-8 Masaoka Shiki and Post Meiji-Restoration Writers II5min
9 exercícios práticos
Practice Quiz 3-12min
Practice Quiz 3-22min
Practice Quiz 3-32min
Practice Quiz 3-42min
Practice Quiz 3-52min
Practice Quiz 3-62min
Practice Quiz 3-72min
Practice Quiz 3-82min
Module3 Graded Quiz30min
Week
4The Literary Photograph II
Our final module traces the trajectory of the literary photograph from the end of the long nineteenth century into Japan’s modern era. Photographic images of the human figure in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Japan were often accompanied by literary writing inscribed either on the image itself, or on its reverse side. Modern novelists sometimes published photographs with short poems as captions. We will wrap up our course with a summary of how visual and written modes of representation colluded, and combined to produce powerful documents of social and psychological actuality.
9 vídeos (Total de 78 min), 10 testes
9 videos
4-2 Portrait of Niijima Yae7min
4-3 Picture Postcard I7min
4-4 Picture Postcard II11min
4-5 Letters from Nagai Kafū11min
4-6 ”Strange Tale from East of the River” by Nagai Kafū I7min
4-7 ”Strange Tale from East of the River” by Nagai Kafū II8min
4-8 Course Summary I7min
4-9 Course Summary II6min
10 exercícios práticos
Practice Quiz 4-12min
Practice Quiz 4-22min
Practice Quiz 4-32min
Practice Quiz 4-42min
Practice Quiz 4-52min
Practice Quiz 4-62min
Practice Quiz 4-72min
Practice Quiz 4-82min
Practice Quiz 4-92min
Module 4 Graded Quiz30min
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Melhores avaliações
por VC•Jan 10th 2018
Very knowledgeable lecturer with a gentle humble voice. Much was learned about literary portraits from 18th/19th centuries to literary photographs in the early 20th century.
por HL•Oct 16th 2017
Great course, excellent teaching by sensei. ALthough subtitles sometimes are wrongly interpreted (like 'major restoration' nstead of 'Meiji'
Instrutores
Robert Campbell
Emeritus Professor, The University of TokyoDirector-General, National Institute of Japanese Literature
Sobre The University of Tokyo
The University of Tokyo was established in 1877 as the first national university in Japan. As a leading research university, UTokyo offers courses in essentially all academic disciplines at both undergraduate and graduate levels and conducts research across the full spectrum of academic activity.
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