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Visit the Asia Society's Japanese Art online exhibit. Read the introduction and then choose one work from the virtual exhibit that demonstrates this statement from the introduction, "…the exhibition tackled the relationship between Japan's foreign policy and its assimilation of aesthetic forms from other cultures." Explain how the work illustrates the relationship between Japanese foreign policy and aesthetic form.

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Go to the online Japanese Gardens site of Professor Clifton Olds of Bowdoin College and visit that portion devoted to the Ryoan-ji. Use the site's computer-generated "speculations" on the original appearance of the garden. Compare what one sees today with the suggestion of what one would have seen originally. Which do you prefer? Why?

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Visit John Fiorillo's "Viewing Japanese Prints". Click on 'Frequently Asked Questions' and read Fiorillo's discussion of "How do you grade the quality and condition of a print?"

Summarize the categories of prints and briefly describe the characteristics of each category.

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