A Case Study of Heian Japan through Art: Japan's Four GreatEmaki
Essay
Lesson
Images
Handouts (pdf)
This module focuses on the Heian period, 794-1185.
Heian Japan materials:
- “Heian Japan: An Introductory Essay,”by Ethan Segal, Michigan State University
- “A Case Study of Heian Japan Through Art: Japan’s Four GreatEmaki”(lesson plan), by Jaye Zola, retired teacher and librarian, Boulder Valley Schools
- Print the Entire Lesson Module(pdf)
To use “A Case Study of Heian Japan Through Art,” you will need to print the scroll selections for analysis by students. Links to these prints are provided in theHeian Japan Online Image List.
You will need enough copies of the selections from each scroll for one-fourth of the class. Alternatively, if you have enough computers for every two students to have a computer, you could download the visuals and make them available at the classroom computers or allow students to access the visuals directly from the Internet, using theHeian Japan Online Image Listas their starting point.
This project is funded by theJapan Foundation Center for Global Partnership.
Imaging Japanese History
- A Case Study of Heian Japan through Art: Japan's Four GreatEmaki
- A Case Study of Medieval Japan through Art: Samurai Life in Medieval Japan
- A Case Study of Tokugawa Japan through Art: Views of a Society in Transformation
- Becoming Modern: Early 20th Century Japan through Primary Sources
- A Case Study of Late Twentieth-Century Japan through Art: Tezuka Osamu and Astro Boy