Heian Period Art and Culture

Art and Culture in Heian

Japan

Heian Literature

●Tale of Genji p 452-453

○What does this tell you about Heian Culture?

○What did they value?

Heian Art

●Metropolitan Museum Heian Art

●Harvard Art Museum Heian Art

●Smithsonian Museum of Asian Art: Heian Art

●Explore with Your Group Mates

●What commonalities do you see?

●What do you find interesting?

●Why do you think there are so many pottery Shards in the Smithsonian
Collection?

Heian Architecture

●Google Earth Project: Heian Architecture

●How TO

○Go to Link

○Each “Slide” will bring you to a new place with surviving Heian Period Architecture

○Explore, Click on Tiny Guy to enter street view

●What do you notice?

●What interests you?

●Any Commonalities?

Buddhism in Heian Culture

●Pure Land Buddhism

○What were their Practices?

●Zen Buddhism

○Meditation

○Self-Discipline

○Where does it come from?