MST200Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Royal Aeronautical Society, Heian Period, Lanval
14 Feb 2017
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Themselves their demeanor, behaviour, their looks also as poets, scholars, etc. Artifact: 14thc handscroll with paintings depicting part of genji, ch. Text and physical artifacts are present in the story itself. Emaki, or handscrolls are made of paper or silk, picture+ text, picture + text, etc, joined horizontally. Unroll with left hand and re-roll with right hand as you read. Text & artifacts historical context reading & writing communities (because texts are present in the story) Heian japan, imperial capital and court was heian-kyo (now kyoto) Cultural dialogue with china law codes buddhist texts, instruments, poetry. Heian literature: produces by and for the capital elite, made especially by aristocratic women and read by them as well. Monogatari: long novels and narratives less prestigious, more for entertainment that edification (because they were fictional, deceptive and about love), but everybody read them. Lady murasaki shikibu, author of the tale of genji. Her and her family part of the aristocratic class.
