Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions.It includes the following projects for elementary age children: your first haiku your favorite season your own personal haiku haiku with pictures and haiku with a friend.
This book introduces five styles of haiku to readers ages 7 and up. Haiku (Asian Arts and Crafts for Creative Kids). The introduction details the origin and development of haiku, and the lives of the most famous poets. Haiku: Japanese Art and Poetry presents thrity-five pairs of poems and images, organized seasonally. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.Ī collection of lively retellings of Japanese legends and fairy tales for ages 9 and up. Tales from Japan (Oxford Myths and Legends). McAlpine, Helen and William, and Rosamund Fowler. Boston: Tuttle Publishing, 2003.Ī compilation of popular Japanese folktales, complete with color illustrations. Boston: Tuttle Publishing, 2007.Ī collection of twenty-two fairy tales illustrated with black-and-white drawings. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, 2002.įor grades 6 and up, this book contains information about the history, roots, and rituals of Shinto. Lincolnwood, Ill: MTC Publishing Group, 1997.Ĭomprehensive Shinto glossary with terms and definitions, as well as short essays on Shinto practice and beliefs. Denver Art Museum Wacky Kidsĭenver Art Museum webpage, kids books about Japan. This website features online exhibitions, teacher guides, lesson plans, and resources on Japanese art from the collections of the Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler galleries. Smithsonian Japanese Art Teacher Resources Denver Art Museum Asian Artĭenver Art Museum Asian art web page. The National Consortium for Teaching About AsiaĪ web resource for elementary and secondary teachers. Websites Shinto EssayĮssay from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, with accompanying images. This video from the Asian Art Museum offers a succinct introduction to Shinto. This sculpture is not a representation of the deity, but simply a body in which the deity can reside. Even though this particular object is in human form, it doesn’t function any differently than other objects that were placed in shrines.
Other objects, or “god-bodies,” created to house the kami included jade, jewels, mirrors, swords, and sword blades. But, influenced by Buddhism, they later came to include paintings and sculptures of human-like Shinto deities.
The objects of Shinto worship were originally, in most cases, natural things like mountains, trees, and stones. Objects such as this sculpture were kept within the shrine and not seen by the worshippers-the kami were meant to be revered within the mind. Shrines served as the center of Shinto worship and helped maintain a harmonious unity between man and kami. There were kami dedicated to everything from rivers and food to creative abstract forces and exceptional people. There may even have been an attempt to do as little as possible to bring out the figure from that wood, rather than carving in every single detail and making it look natural or humanlike.”Ī Shinto kami was generally seen as a sustainer and protector of the people. As Denver Art Museum Curator Ronald Ostuka suggests, “If you think of the spirit of a tree itself, I think there probably was a definite intention not to cut the tree or segment it, but to use it in its natural state. The carver expressed respect for the natural material of the sculpture by carving out of a single piece of wood. This sculpture was crafted to be a body for a kami, and was not meant to be worshipped as an icon or a religious image. Shrines dedicated to specific kami housed objects like this sculpture in order to give the kami a physical object in which to reside. In Shintoism, natural phenomena-rocks, caves, waterfalls, springs, islands, trees, and mountains-are believed to be inhabited by nature spirits. This sculpture was probably carved by a follower of Shinto, the indigenous religion of Japan, in the 900s.
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