Students will research and write about the manufacture and story of an object that is sentimental to them, using Tokugawa Ieyasu's swords as an example.
Students will research and write about the manufacture and story of an object that is sentimental to them, using Tokugawa Ieyasu's swords as an example.
While ostensibly an art project about particular pottery forms in pre-literate Japan—a Jomon era flamboyant ceramic and Yayoi era footed jar—the real goal of this two-lesson series is to investigate with students the ways in which experts examine and interpret ancient material.