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