FF:JAP308 Japanese Buddhist Art - Course Information
JAP308 Japanese Buddhist Art
Faculty of ArtsSpring 2016
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 3 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Zuzana Kubovčáková, M.A., Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. PhDr. Luboš Bělka, CSc.
Department of Japanese Studies – Asia Studies Centre – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of Japanese Studies – Asia Studies Centre – Faculty of Arts - Timetable
- Mon 14:10–15:45 B2.24
- Prerequisites (in Czech)
- JAP116 Japanese Buddhism || JAP103 Introduction to Japan. Studies || RLA10 Buddhism I || JAP216 Religions in Japan
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 9 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- The course draws on the course JAP206 Japanese Buddhism. The aim of the course is an artistic perspective of Japanese Buddhism. By means of specific displays of Japanese arts and architectural monuments the students will be introduced to the artistic expression of Japanese Buddhism in various periods of Japanese history.
- Syllabus
- Buddhist Symbolism
- Early Buddhism in Japan and its artistic expressions
- Nara period sculpture
- Construction of grand temples in Nara and Heian capitals
- Lotus Sutra paintings
- The Nara and Kyoto Daibutsu
- Amidism in Japan
- Early and Medieval Shinto Architecture
- Esoteric Buddhist iconography
- Kyóto gozan and zen calligraphy
- Tokugawa period arts
- Literature
- required literature
- Bowring, Richard John: The religious traditions of Japan, 500-1600. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- Nanzan guide to Japanese religions. Edited by Paul L. Swanson - Clark Chilson. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006, xii, 466. ISBN 0824830024. info
- MASON, Penelope E. History of Japanese art. Edited by Donald Dinwiddie. second edition. New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005, 432 stran. ISBN 0131176013. info
- VARLEY, H. Paul. Japanese culture. 4th ed., updated and expande. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000, 383 s. ISBN 0824821521. info
- recommended literature
- Winkelhöferová, Vlasta: Mingei - lidové umění a řemeslo v Japonsku. Praha: Lidové noviny, 2006.
- Beer, Robert: Symboly tibetského buddhizmu. Praha: BB/ Art, 2005.
- Cambridge History of Japan- všetky kapitoly súvisiace s náboženstvom, buddhistickými školami, ľudovou vierou etc.
- Swann, Peter C.: Umění Číny, Koreje a Japonska. Praha: Odeon 1970.
- The Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art Series
- Robert H. Sharf, Elizabeth Horton Sharf: Living images: Japanese Buddhist icons in context. Stanford: Stanford University Press, c2001.
- YOSHIKAWA, Itsuji. Major themes in Japanese art. Translated by Armins Nikovskis. 1st English ed. New York: Weatherhill, 1976, 166 s. ISBN 0834810034. info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures combined with assessed presentations of students.
- Assessment methods
- Presentation and final test.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Follow-Up Courses
- Further Comments
- The course is taught once in two years.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2016, recent)
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