JAPN 314: Japanese Visual Culture and Media
Course Description: This course teaches students how to learn about Japanese culture by looking at different types of visual medias such as paintings, films, and other different forms of artwork. Students look at historical Japanese cultural art paintings and learn how to analyze the artwork to be able to identify what the everyday life of the Japanese people were like along with their culture such as their forms of transportation, the economy, and what the social status of the people looked like and then compare it to the student's own personal culture to see what the similarities and differences are.
Covers MLO: 2
Reflection Narrative: In this course I would look at photographs of old historical paintings of Japan and learned how to analyze the situations in the paintings by learning how to say everything out loud that we see in the paintings. For example, there was this one painting that was shown from the Edo period and it was a painting about a fishing warf in Japan and we looked at every detail in the painting such as the actions of the people and what the people were wearing. In the painting we seen many people who were merchants and trying to sell fish who were dressed poorly and then other people who were dressed more nicely who were purchasing the fish so through that painting I learned that many people tried to make a living by becoming merchants and selling fish to the wealthier people and I learned what types of clothing they would wear. I also looked at some more modern historical painting of Japan from the Victorian era and saw that the Japanese people wore similar dresses that western women would wear along with similar suits and hairstyles as the men in america would wear and the men wore mustaches just like how the american people would back in the Victorian era so from looking at this paintings I learned that the west had a big impact and influence on Japan from many years ago which means that Japan had let foreigners into their country during that time period. I also looked at different forms of Japanese artwork such as the movie artwork about non living things having a soul and coming to life in the movie which shows me that Japanese people believe that non living things carry a soul inside of them.
Covers MLO: 2
Reflection Narrative: In this course I would look at photographs of old historical paintings of Japan and learned how to analyze the situations in the paintings by learning how to say everything out loud that we see in the paintings. For example, there was this one painting that was shown from the Edo period and it was a painting about a fishing warf in Japan and we looked at every detail in the painting such as the actions of the people and what the people were wearing. In the painting we seen many people who were merchants and trying to sell fish who were dressed poorly and then other people who were dressed more nicely who were purchasing the fish so through that painting I learned that many people tried to make a living by becoming merchants and selling fish to the wealthier people and I learned what types of clothing they would wear. I also looked at some more modern historical painting of Japan from the Victorian era and saw that the Japanese people wore similar dresses that western women would wear along with similar suits and hairstyles as the men in america would wear and the men wore mustaches just like how the american people would back in the Victorian era so from looking at this paintings I learned that the west had a big impact and influence on Japan from many years ago which means that Japan had let foreigners into their country during that time period. I also looked at different forms of Japanese artwork such as the movie artwork about non living things having a soul and coming to life in the movie which shows me that Japanese people believe that non living things carry a soul inside of them.