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Chapter 25

Visual and Style Analysis

Visual and Style Analysis

This activity contains 5 questions.

	Look in your text at the image of Ryoan-ji garden (fig. 25-5). Do you agree with your textbook that perhaps it is best to see the rocks and gravel as "rocks and gravel?" Why or why not?   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	Look at the Ryoan-ji garden, and then, from Chapter 23, the view of the Taj Mahal. Do you regard one of these as more conducive to contemplation? Which? Why?   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	View the Himeji Castle (fig. 25-6). The details of the castle are Japanese. Yet, the existence of this structure is owed to the new relationship of Japan with Europe. Explain.   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	In your text, look at the picture of the central room of the Juko-in, Daitoku-ju (fig. 25-7). At first, one notices the Kano Eitoku paintings on the fusuma. Let that part of the image sink in. Then look at the great empty space on this side of the screen. How do you describe this space? What do you suppose took place in that space?   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

	Look on your CD at the diagram of the inside of a writing box. You see the implements from ink well to a hand holding a brush. Thinking about the implements, describe the role that ink-and-brush writing and drawing had on Japanese art.   To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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