Abstract:

The Philadelphia Museum of Art's Division of Education has produced three kits for teachers to introduce students to the art of Japan, Korea, and China. Each kit includes slides, image cards highlighting works from the Museum's Asian arts collection, a video, and a resource book featuring looking questions, related classroom activity suggestions, a map, timeline, glossary, and bibliography. Also included is a CD-ROM version of all the elements in the kit. This particular kit features ten objects in the Museum’s Japanese collection. Works of art from a variety of mediums and eras have been chosen, from a 4000-year-old ceramic Jo-mon Jar to a nineteenth-century woodblock print by Katsushika Hokusai. The included video, Sunkaraku: The Japanese Tea House at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, describes the Japanese tea ceremony as performed in the Museum's Japanese tea house.