Activity
Samurai: Design Your Own Symbol
The imagery on a samurai’s armor expresses that samurai’s identity and source of inspiration or empowerment. Is there an image you connect with most?
Create your own hanging scroll and name seal.
Splashed Ink Landscape. By Soga Sojo (active 1490–approx.1512). Japan. Hanging scroll. Ink on paper. Gift and purchase from the Harry G. C. Packard Collection Charitable Trust in honor of Dr. Shujiro Shimada, 1991.63.
Standards:
Content Standards (California): VPA/VA 4.2.6: Use the interaction between positive and negative space expressively in a work of art. VPA/VA 4.4.4: Identify and describe how various cultures define and value art differently. VPA/VA 5.1.1: Identify and describe the principles of design in visual compositions, emphasizing unity and harmony. VPA/VA 5.2.4: Create an expressive abstract composition based on real objects. VPA/VA 6.5.3: Create artwork containing visual metaphors that express the traditions and myths of selected cultures.
Materials: scroll: plain white paper, decorative paper or fabric, two dowels, string, glue or tape; name seal: scratch paper, carbon paper, thin foam core cut into seal-size squares (about 3 inches square) or small rectangles, tape, medium-point black marker, red water-soluble printing ink, ink roller and tray, dull pencils or other incising tools
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