Ukiyo-e Essay

In 1745, Olaudah Equiano was born in a small village in Isseke,Nigeria. His father was one of the chiefs in the village. At age eleven Equiano and his sister were kidnapped by two men and a woman never to see his home or parents again. After being kidnapped he was hiked across part of Africa untill he arrived at the coast where he was loaded onto a slave ship. While crossing the Atlantic to Barbados onboard the slave ship he and his countrymen were subject to horrors you could hardly imagine. Equiano tells about the horrors and torture slaves face not only on the slave ship but also on plantations and many other aspects of a slave's life. Equiano experienced almost all parts of a slave's existence. He was

The Yanomamo are a tribe of twenty thousand who live in about two hundred and fifty widely dispersed villages in Brazil and Venezuela. It was first thought that the Yanomamo were a group of hunter-gatherers, but contrary to that thought they actually cultivate their own crops for food. They also hunt and forage, but only as needed.

Distinctively visual representations allow the audience to envisage different purposes crafting emotions which stay with us forever. Graphic depiction is a fundamental characteristic within distinctively visual, thus the audience is able to be exposed to the intense illustrations exemplified by composers. Spudvilla’s portrayal of “Woolvs in the sitee” demonstrates the child’s inability to reconcile with himself. Contrasting to this notion; the playwright “Shoe-horn Sonata” to expose the brutal reality of POW camps during WWII. Therefore, distinctively visual forces the audience to succumb to the barriers society creates.

Creation stories are symbolic accounts of how the world and its inhabitants came about. These stories first developed in oral traditions, so there are multiple accounts of them from different cultures and societies. The Babylonian Creation story, the Genesis Creation story, and the Sumerian story of the Creation of Enkidu are examples of these and the similarities are interesting. As Dennis Bratcher states, “Because of many parallels with the Genesis account, some historians concluded that the Genesis account was simply a rewriting of the Babylonian Story. As a reaction, many who wanted to maintain the uniqueness of the Bible argues either that there were no real parallels between the accounts or that the Genesis narratives were

‘Kokoda was Australia’s most successful and significant military campaign and should be commemorated.’ By: Vansh Shah 10C Kokoda should be commemorated since it was both successful and significant. Firstly, it was successful many ways because the combination of the 2 battalion and the AIF successfully defended Australia and Port Moresby from being used a military significance for the Japanese making it both significant and successful military campaign.

Utagawa Kuniyoshi born 1797 was one of the last great masters of the japanese ukiyo-e style woodblock prints and painting.

There is not a great deal of context that is crucial to understanding the essential themes of the Meno, largely because the dialogue sits nearly at the beginning of western philosophy. Socrates and Plato are working not so much in the context of previous philosophies as in the context of the lack of them. Further, this is very probably one of Plato's earliest surviving dialogues, set in about 402 BCE (by extension, we might presume that it represents Socrates at a relatively early stage in his own thought). Nonetheless, in order to understand the aims and achievements of the dialogue, it helps to keep in mind some details about this lack of previous philosophies.

In Equiano’s autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, is one of the books that is wrote in English by someone of the African inheritance. It is one of the most successful book that was written by the start of the Civil War. Books like autobiographies were not recognized as a form of genre in the 1700s. Books that were produced in those days were given bright, firm, fearless narratives. Everyone knew Equiano’s narrative. It considered religious pieces and caught the eye of some readers. Equiano encountered pieces of his life in his books.

"Segu is a garden where cunning grows. Segu is built on treachery. Speak of Segu outside Segu, but do not speak of Segu in Segu" (Conde 3). These are the symbolic opening words to the novel Segu by Maryse Conde. The kingdom of Segu in the eighteenth and nineteenth century represents the rise and fall of many kingdoms in the pre-colonial Africa. Therefore, Segu indirectly represents the enduring struggles, triumphs, and defeats of people who are of African decent in numerous countries around the world. There are three major historical concepts that are the focus of this book. One is the spread of the Islamic religion. Another is the slave trade, and the last is the new

The Kikongo word nommo means “makes things live as what they are: man or tree or animal” and “word” (Kingsolver 209). Adah explains that it’s as if something isn’t worth anything until it is named. Like a life isn’t anything until there is a name to it. It differentiates people. Therefore, it helps Adah understand that she isn’t the same as her twin sister, even if they are twins. They came from the same mother, egg, and stomach. However, that doesn’t make them the same. They’re individual humans and their names differentiate them. Adah also understands why her father is such an awful Christian preacher for the people of Kilanga. Her dad tries preaching in their language, however, it’s not really their language. Nathan doesn’t know what he is talking about and what words he is really saying so what comes out of his mouth, makes little sense to the people of Kilanga or sounds wrong to them so it makes his practice look bad and him look dumb. That’s why no one in Kilanga really looks up to what they’re doing or what he’s preaching because he isn’t concentrating on letting the people of Kilanga understand the differences of his words and their language.

Zen, also known as Ch’an Buddhism in China, is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that was established in China about 1500 years ago. Zen is a form of religious practice of mainly concentrating the mind to a single point in which then results in self-realization and/or enlightenment. Zen philosophy is interpreted that all humans are capable of reaching enlightenment, which is generally blocked by ignorance. The idea emphasizes enlightened masters over forms of scriptures, and is the least “academic” of all the Buddhist schools.

The significance of ukiyo-e is to describe the world which is continually changing. Also, the Japanese artists brought ukiyo-e to the world. In the late 1800s, Europeans began to use the packing material which have ukiyo-e style. Because Europeans were interested in Japanese goods, they made the trade. Also, ukiyo-e affected artists, such as Impressionists and post-Impressionists. These artists changed the way which they made the paintings, or they added ukiyo-e elements in their work.

I decided to choose Matsuo Basho and Kobayashi poetry for the early modern age period. I chose Masoka Shiki poetry for the modern age period. The early modern age poems I chose were heavily based on nature and human interaction with the use of some nature. The modern age poems I chose both by Shiki there was a shift from the early modern age because of the different influences and of course time period. However, all of the poems I still could connect to whether it was about nature, real life human interaction, and experiences.

Romantic love remains one of the most importance themes in virtually all cultures’ art; in Japanese and Indian art, although with different historical contexts and therefore interpretations, continues to be no exception. Kitigawa Utamaro prevailed as one of the most important artists under the ukiyo-e genres, focusing on the beauty of women in the hedonistic and rigidly organized Tokugawa period as it enjoyed stability the island yearned for. Of an unknown artist of the Rajasthani school in neighboring Madhya Pradesh, foreign powers from the Mughal Empire to the Portuguese slowly encroached in India, yet managed to maintain its traditions in Radha Krishna in its epic romance in Jayadeva’s Gita Govinda. In Utamaro’s “Lovers under a Futon”

The sweet, milky solution is sterilised at a high temperature for a short time, destroying any bacteria that may be present. This process is called UHTST (Ultra Heat Treatment, Short Time). The solution is then transferred to a 6,000-litre fermentation tank via a closed system of pipes and valves.