Japanese Vocabulary Review

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Across
  1. 5. central gate
  2. 8. the spire that rises out of the highest part of the pagoda
  3. 9. lecture hall
  4. 13. a high-grade green tea ground into powdered form. The green tea powder is whisked into hot water, instead of steeped, to form a frothy drink.
  5. 14. literally, “pictures from Ōtsu” - folk art sold to travelers on roadsides.
  6. 16. a religion incorporating the worship of ancestors and nature spirits and a belief in sacred power in both animate and inanimate things.
  7. 17. large artificial mound tombs built in ancient Japan
  8. 18. (Japanese word that describes people with consuming interests, particularly in anime, manga, video games, or computers.).
  9. 21. "god-entertainment" - is a type of Shinto ritual ceremonial dance
  10. 23. translates to ‘earthen’ or ‘clay’ figure.
  11. 26. an Asian religious and philosophical tradition that focuses on achieving enlightenment.
  12. 27. a type of printmaking technique where a design is carved into a block of wood.
  13. 28. a theatrical genre, developed very early in the Edo period.
  14. 31. a type of narrative that illustrates multiple scenes of a narrative within a single frame
  15. 32. a religious tiered tower with multiple eaves
  16. 33. the era during which a shogun and his family were in power
  17. 34. main hall
  18. 36. ‘cord pattern’ or ‘pattern of rope’
  19. 39. enlightened beings who have put off entering paradise in order to help others attain enlightenment
  20. 42. a style of woodblock prints that developed with the rise of ukiyo culture
  21. 44. a roofed platform along the outside of a house, level with the ground floor
  22. 45. syllabic Japanese writing
  23. 46. the Japanese word for fox
  24. 48. an artist who specialized in painting or sculpting images for Buddhist temples
  25. 49. group of models or motionless figures representing a scene from a story or from history
  26. 51. elaborate bronze ceremonial bells.
  27. 52. a style of animation that originated in Japan. It usually contains colorful graphics, energetic characters, and action-oriented plots
  28. 54. translated as “cute.”
  29. 55. a ritual where the Naikū, the Gekū, 14 other buildings, the Uji Bridge and the torii gateway are rebuilt every 20 years
  30. 56. the accurate, detailed, unembellished depiction of a subject
  31. 57. a Japanese system of writing that utilizes characters borrowed or adapted from Chinese writing.
Down
  1. 1. a classical style of Japanese painting marked by shallow spatial illusion, bold colors, surface patterning, and stylized forms.
  2. 2. an ancient Shinto tradition related to the old belief that cranes lived to a thousand years, and that the crane will grant you health and long life if you make 1000 origami cranes.
  3. 3. solid woodblock - carving - a sculpting technique, according to which the sculpture is carved out of a single block of wood.
  4. 4. the gateway of a Shinto shrine, with two uprights and two cross pieces
  5. 6. Japanese graphic novels that tell stories in pictures (sometimes ‘manga’ can also refer to the drawing style used)
  6. 7. Five-storied Pagoda
  7. 10. a usually dome-shaped structure (such as a mound) serving as a Buddhist shrine.
  8. 11. an ornamental, rooflike structure
  9. 12. a raised platform
  10. 15. “all the gods”
  11. 16. hereditary military dictator
  12. 18. literally means ‘woman’s hand.’
  13. 19. illustrated scrolls
  14. 20. joined woodblock - carving - a sculpting technique where the artwork is formed from multiple pieces of joined wood.
  15. 22. a place regarded as holy because of its associations with a divinity or a sacred person or relic
  16. 24. a roof that has two sides that meet and form a ridge in the middle
  17. 25. a method of creating pottery where the clay is rolled into a rope and then coiled it upwards in a spiral
  18. 29. (“the floating world”) a term used to describe the urban culture that developed during the Edo period.
  19. 30. “tent government”
  20. 35. a site where a shrine used to stand. The shrine has been destroyed, but the deity still remains.
  21. 36. any of the various stories of the former lives of the Buddha found in Buddhist literature
  22. 37. a divine being in the Shinto religion
  23. 38. an ancient burial mound
  24. 40. new and unusual or experimental ideas, especially in the arts.
  25. 41. developed by Takashi - both an artistic style and a cultural critique that blurs the boundaries between high and low art,
  26. 43. (translates to “art person”) a woman who is specially trained in music, dancing, and the art of conversation.
  27. 47. Japanese poems
  28. 50. unglazed terracotta clay figures that were made for ritual use and buried with the dead
  29. 53. special hand gesture to evoke a state of mind