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What are these things for?
As stand-alone modules and in conjunction with the Engaging Acts, these "Visions" are designed to engage your thinking about visual documents of Japan's colorful cultural history. Your abilities to notice details, draw meaningful connections among sources, and interpret items of art and architecture historically will be honed as you examine the examples represented in each of the four units. While interesting in and of themselves, they are not presented here for merely passive enjoyment (although I hope you enjoy them); you will be prompted to actively produce meaning(s) from them by considering them in the context of in-class materials, discussions, and your Engaging Acts write-ups.
How do you do them?
Each of the four Engaging Visions introduces visual artifacts related to particular themes within each unit of the course. In general, you should begin viewing the Vision at the onset of each unit, and re-view it as you progress with the lectures and readings for that unit and as you begin thinking about the Engaging Act that is linked to it. Specific guidelines, all rather self-explanatory, are accessible by scrolling down this page or clicking on the desired Vision from the following menu.
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2. Aristocratic
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