Japanese Sumi-e Painting/Haiku

Students create Sumi-e paintings and explore the various materials, techniques, and processes associated with those paintings in an effort to better understand Japanese art and culture.

Middle schoolers explore the Japanese literature, music and art. Pupils discuss the culture of Japan. While listening to Japanese music, they write and illustrate a Haiku. Students are given the opportunity to create origami.

Young scholars practice in identifying main idea: illustrating primary concept or image in written material (haiku). They complete a unit on traditional haiku form including socio and cultural history of Japan. Students generate haikus...

Students identify that Japanese folktales reveal information about Japanese history, life, and customs. Students identify and interpret the work kamishibai, paper play and explain that in Japanese folktales are told through a series of...

Students study the history and culture of 17th century Japan by examining samurai. They review the format of haiku poetry and examine renga poetry. They examine Kamishibai, the Japanese storytelling form and apply it five facts they...

Students take a closer look at Japanese drama. In this Japanese culture lesson, students study the attributes of Noh theater and compare it western theater. Students conduct independent research on the art form prior to acting out a Noh...

Seventh graders examine and discuss examples of Asian brush painting. They create a Korean brush painting, reproducing the same floral image as the instructor and writing the Korean word for flower on the painting.

Students examine the works of art incorporated in Asian export objects and respond to them using Japanese haiku poems. In this haiku poems lesson, students analyze a still life painting and the images represented in it. Students define...

Students examine works of art that incorporate Asian export objects, and then respond to them using Japanese haiku poems. discuss the subject and meaning in a work of art. They explain the basic ideas behind Japanese haiku poetry.

An awesome imbedded video kicks off a lesson on Japanese woodblock masters Hokusai and Hiroshige. After learning about the art style, they analyze several woodblocks for color, composition, and mood. Kids can then make woodblock prints...