Vessel

D: 2500-1500 B.C.E.

P/S: Middle Jomon Period

A: Unknown

Pa: Unknown

L: Miyanomae, Nagano Prefecture (Pre means a district with a governor)

M/T: Earthenware

F:Used from storage to cooking to bone burial.

C: Extremely thick and heacy.

DT: None

pg. 218 Fig. 8-1

Tomb of Emperor Nintoku

D: Late Fourth to early fifth century

P/S: Kofun Period (Ko means old, fun means tomb)

A: Unknown

Pa: Emperor Nintoku

L: Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

M/T:

F: Burial ground for Emperor Nintoku

C: Larfest tumuli possibly. In the shape of a keyhole with a huge moat. Covers 458 Acres.

DT: Tumuli (Pit graves covered by sometimes enormous mounds)

pg. 219 fig. 8-3

Haniwa (cylindrical)  Warrior Figure

D: Fifth to mid-sixth century

P/S: late Kofun Period

A: Unknown

Pa: Unknown

L: from Gunma Prefecture, Japan

M/T: Low-Fired clay

F: Buriel guardian/warriors. The more you had in your tomb with you, the higher your status had been.

C: Cylindrical shape distinctively Japanese

DT: None

pg. 220 Fig. 8-4

Horyuji Kondo (Golden Hall)

D: ca. 680 CE

P/S: Early Nara (Hakuho) Period

A: Unknown

Pa: Unknown

L: Nara Japan

M/T: Wooden

F: The image hall in a Japanese Buddhist Temple.

C: Housed the major sculptural icons and provided a site fof worship and prayer

DT: Known as the Kondo meaning Golden Hall

pg. 222 Fig. 8-6

Daibutsuden (Great Buddha Hall)

D: ca. 1700, eigth century

P/S: Nara Period

A: Unknown

Pa: The imperial court sponsored the construction as well as Emperor Shomu

L: Todaiji, Japan

M/T: Wooden

F: Temple complex, served as the administrative center of a network of branch temples builty in every province.

C: An important imperial attempt to unify and strengthen the country by utilizing religious authority to reinforce imperial power.

DT: None

pg. 225 Fig. 8-10

Phoenix Hall

D: 1053

P/S: Heian period

A: Fujiwara Yorimichi (r. 990-1074)

Pa: Unknown

L: Byodoin, Uji, Japan

M/T: Wooden/By using light pillars on the exterior, elevating the wings, and situating the whole on a reflective pong, the builders suggested a floating weightlessness architecture.

F: Temple complex

 C: Houses a wodden statute of Amida carved from multiple joined blocks.

DT: None

pg. 226 Fig. 8-12

Shunjobo Chogen, Priest

D:Early 13th Century

P/S: Kamakura period

A: Unknown

Pa: Possibly Chogen himself

L: Todaiji, China

M/T: Painted Cypress Wood

F: Portrait statute of a very very important priest (1121-1206) who helped in planning and directing reconstructing effots and even oversaw the building of Todaiji.

C: One of the most striking examples of the high level of naturalism prevalent in the early Kamakura period. He exhibits the carving skill and style of the Kei school of sculptors.

DT: none

pg. 228 Fig. 8-15

The Burning of the Sanjo Palace

D: 13th Century

P/S: Kamakura period

A: Unknown

Pa: Unknown

L: Japan?

M/T: Handscroll, ink and colors on paper

F: Narrative handscroll which illustrated some of the battles in the civil wars at the end of the Heian period.

C: A warrior on a rearing horse serve as a deceptive cadence (False ending) beause they are just a prelude to the single figure of an archer, who picks up and completes the soldiers' mass movement, ending the narrative.

DT: None

pg. 229 fig. 8-16