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Pacific Asia Museum: Animals in Japanese Art

For Students 9th - 10th
A rich-media site that explores animals, both real and imaginary, as a central theme in Japanese paintings and prints. Learn about the traditions and techniques of Japanese painting and prints and see examples of work created by Japanese...
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Euronet: Japanese Art and Western Influence

For Students 9th - 10th
This Euronet offers general information about Japanese art and accompanying photos can be found here. Maneuvering around this site is an easy task.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Japanese Art: The Formats of Two Dimensional Works

For Students 9th - 10th
Japanese two-dimensional works of art can take several different formats. Read about handscrolls and hanging scrolls and view examples in this essay.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Japan

For Students 9th - 10th
Illustrated overviews of the art of Japan by time period.
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Topper Gallery Japanese Scroll Paintings

For Students 9th - 10th
Two examples of Japanese scroll paintings are found here with very little information.
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Japanese Artist Katsushika Hokusai

For Students 3rd - 8th
A site created by Enchanted Learning about the life and works of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849 CE). Contains a short biography, links to more information, an art activity, and a printable coloring page that can also be...
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Artlelino: Japanese Paintings

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand the history and art of Japanese painting.
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Mississippi Museum of Art: Homepage

For Students 9th - 10th
The Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson is the largest museum in the state, and has the largest collection of art by and about Mississippians. The collection is also notably strong in 19th and 20th century American landscape paintings,...
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The Wharton Group

Discover France: Henri De Toulouse Lautrec

For Students 9th - 10th
This website from discoverfrance.net features Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, the famous postimpressionist painter.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Hokusai, Under the Wave Off Kanagawa (The Great Wave)

For Students 9th - 10th
Katsushika Hokusai's "Under the Wave off Kanagawa", also called "The Great Wave" has become one of the most famous works of art in the world-and debatably the most iconic work of Japanese art. View the picture and read the history behind...
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Ukiyo E "Images From the Floating World"

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a site on Japanese artists from this period. There is also a link to Western artists that influenced the Ukiyo-e artists after Japan was opened to the West after 1867.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Japan: Images of a People

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learners learn to view Japanese paintings, they make a screen, and they learn about the culture of Japan. There are three lesson plans and all allow all needed materials to be downloaded.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Archery Practice

For Students 9th - 10th
This painting depicts one of several forms of archery practice formalized as early as the Kamakura period (1185-1333), this activity trained warriors to shoot accurately at moving targets while riding at a full gallop. View this picture...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Evolution of Ukiyo E and Woodblock Prints

For Students 9th - 10th
Ukiyo-e began as hand-painted scrolls and screens of everyday life in Japan. They became so popular, they were mass-produced using carved wooden blocks. Read the evolution of this artform and view pictures in this essay.
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Kyoto National Museum: Dictionary for Kids!

For Students 3rd - 8th
This helpful, kid-friendly dictionary is your guide to the museum's collection of Asian art. Read about architecture, paintings, ceramics, and more!
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: Hishikawa Moronobu

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers links to images in museums and galleries and articles on the artist.
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Yale University

E.e. Cummings and Gertrude Stein

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, maintained by Yale's Rare Book and Manuscript Library, discusses the influence of Chinese and Japanese art on Cummings' poems and paintings. Offers one example of each along with brief commentary.
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Toy Theater

Toy Theater: Create a Print in the Style of Hokusai

For Students 3rd - 8th
An interactive feature that lets you model a print after Hokusai.
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National Earth Science Teachers Association

Windows to the Universe: Mythology Hangman

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Test your knowledge of world mythology by playing Mythology Hangman, a Java applet and website that features images, maps, and descriptions for beginner, intermediate, and advanced students. It is a great resource to supplement mythology...