This presentation is from our class session on Contextual Analysis of Japanese Art

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Vocabulary:

Tokugawa Period
Bakufu
Shogun
Daimyo
Samurai
Buddhism
Shintoism
Confucianism
Kabuki
Patronage
Woodblock prints

For further research:
"The Cultural Atlas of Japan"
By Martin Collcutt, Marius Jansen and Isao Kumakura
Facts On File, Inc. 1988
ISBN: 0-8160-1927-4

"The Art of Japan"
By J. Edward Kidder
Published by Park Lane, distributed by Crown Publishers 1985
ISBN: 0-517-48300-9

"The Arts of Japan: Ancient and Medieval"
By Seroku Noma
Kodansha International 1966
ISBN: 0-87011-335-6

"Seventy Wonders of the Ancient World"
Edited by Chris Scarre
Thames and Hudson Ltd. London, 1999
ISBN: 0-500-05096-1