Seasons: The Beauty of Transience in Japanese Art

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Contents:

INTRODUCTION
- Education Kit Outline
- The Exhibition
- Seasons in Japanese Art
- Japanese Art and Literature
- Exhibition Artforms

WORKS IN PROFILE
- 8 Artworks and Background Information:

THE FOUR SEASONS
1. Yamamoto Soken Seasonal activities screen celebrating Meisho-in's seventieth birthday 1692
2. Anonymous Uji River 16th century

SPRING AND SUMMER
3. Picnic box with design of water and fishnet 18th century
4. Nonomura Ninsei Tea jar with design of Mount Yoshino 17th century

AUTUMN AND WINTER
5. Kosode with design of flower-filled maple leaves 17th century
6. Yosa Buson Eagle and crows 18th century

SEASONS AND LITERATURE
7. Scenes from the Tale of Genji 17th century
8. Shimomura Kanzan Poet Fujiwara-no Teika in Mt. Ogura 1909

- K-6 Looking and Making Activities

SUPPORT MATERIAL
- Links with K-6 Key Learning Areas
- Historical Periods
- Seasons, Months and Motifs
- Poetry of the Seasons
- Art Gallery of New South Wales Resources
- Recommended Reading