EALL 1231 Study Guide - Final Guide: Samurai Trilogy, Tang Xianzu, Tokyo Story

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: East Asian Languages and Lit
• Course: EALL 1231
• Professor: Donglin Chai

Document Summary

Review materials: online textbook module 2 (japanese history), 6 (east asian art), 8 (chinese. Literature; japanese literature; korean literature), 9 (costume; japanese film and anime): course packet page 55-60, 72-80. Question format: 56 regular questions + 2 bonus questions, multiple choice, true or false, matching. Note: about 5 questions are from the previous lectures (covered in quiz 1, midterm and quiz 2). The origins of the people of japan are still under study. The yamato plain region is the site of the oldest tomb mounds in japan. Some of these tomb mounds or kofun are in shape of an old-fashioned key-hole. A style of earthenware sculpture known as haniwa is associated with some of the grave mounds. During the heian period, new forms of writing called kana were created that easily reflected the sounds of japanese language. The earliest foreign reference to japan is in chinese histories, and speaks of.