https://padlet.com/elianadromero/rtcv9jfi5ffgx22g en-us 2021-09-05 18:04:16 UTC 2025-10-13 12:15:31 UTC hello@padlet.com elianadromero https://padlet.com/elianadromero/rtcv9jfi5ffgx22g/wish/1718691838 "However, historians in the latter part of the 19th century began to cast doubt on the accuracy of this account of Hōryūji's destruction and to question whether or not the fire truly did occur. " 
Horyuji : A Brief History 
http://www.horyuji.or.jp/en/garan/ 


This quote highlights the disagreement between historians and what happened in the past. I think that over the years stories are dramatized and they change through tellings. While this many seem obvious it also raises the question on religion. According to the introduction it states that Emperor Yomei build the temple in a religious motive. Religion plays an importance because it can change the story. In the quote historians disagree on whether the blaze happened because "not a single building" was left standing and if that was the case then how are records still quoted as " according to 727 records". It would seem similar as a miracle perhaps. ]]> 2021-09-06 06:37:47 UTC https://padlet.com/elianadromero/rtcv9jfi5ffgx22g/wish/1718691838 elianadromero https://padlet.com/elianadromero/rtcv9jfi5ffgx22g/wish/1735239452 " 'At times like this It feels awkward Many people feel dissatisfaction He thinks there is nothing to be done And life is without joy' ... his environment and the attitude of the people around him changed dramatically ..." (21:05) 
Exploring Hyakunin Isshu Corridor of Knowledge vol.89 

Surroundings and environment seems to play a huge role in poetry. The quote and analysis from the video give one perspective. It not only talks about who and what the people do but according to the video analysis it was because he (point of view in poem) cared about his people who he governed. Which is very similar to 111 and 115 in the Traditional Japanese Poetry pdf. Both poems have examples of nature and discus human emotions though them. Mostly about change and how it effects them. ]]> 2021-09-13 06:54:00 UTC https://padlet.com/elianadromero/rtcv9jfi5ffgx22g/wish/1735239452 elianadromero https://padlet.com/elianadromero/rtcv9jfi5ffgx22g/wish/1770214544 " 'The exhibition is really about how the tale of Genji was read and interpreted over the past 1000 years' " (0:42 - 3:00) 
The Tale of Genji, Part Two | Ancient Art Links 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXW4hHv8ozE&t=3s 


The video is a quick summary of the exhibit on the Tale of Genji and many points through out the video are similar to those in Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan. In the first 40 seconds of the video it highlights the purpose of the exhibit. Which is how the tale was read and interpreted. The Diary is about how a girl read the volumes out of order as there where many of them. She very into the story and describes how her Aunt gave her a few of the volumes. "She gave me more than 50 volumes ..." later on it states that she would read all day and night.  While the diary is more direct in explaining this the exhibit relies more on the art screens, paintings, and card game.
Another point that the video brings up is the idea of marriage though out the story. The exhibit has an item that the princess out be carried and goes on to explain the symbolism of the crest/ significance of it. The Diary also discusses finding marriage and the girl fancies a romanic like that of Lady Yugao. ]]> 2021-09-27 06:31:50 UTC https://padlet.com/elianadromero/rtcv9jfi5ffgx22g/wish/1770214544 elianadromero https://padlet.com/elianadromero/rtcv9jfi5ffgx22g/wish/1788745746 "break through rather than at a gallop, by now it was dark. The regats escort did not know kiyosmoris grandson, or perhaps pretended not to." Tale of Heike

"The biwa used in heikyoku (called the heikebiwa) probably developed from that played in gagaku, court ensemble music of continental Asian origin." Heikyoku 

Though out the story it repeats time and events like this one mentioned seems to be be about power in a way. A musical performance had a very similar concept. The story was told in about 200 so called episodes and it was told orally. The singers where sometimes accompanied by Biwa. The singers would also draw out individual syllables and the melodic lines would be zigzagged and have a hard edge feel. The music was also used as ceremonial / narrative performance. 
Shortly after the events of the quote in the written form the paragraph again has the repetition structure where it seems like a poem and the intensity of a song / theatrical. ]]> 2021-10-04 06:57:23 UTC https://padlet.com/elianadromero/rtcv9jfi5ffgx22g/wish/1788745746 elianadromero https://padlet.com/elianadromero/rtcv9jfi5ffgx22g/wish/1863852494 "That dating makes these hand scrolls even more valuable as examples of work predating the Nagusamigusa (1652), a mixture of pictures and commentary long regarded as the earliest pictorial representation of Essays in Idleness" 
https://www.suntory.com/sma/exhibition/2014_3/display.html 

As the Essays of Idleness grew in readership many artists began to illustrate the passages.   The illustrations vary depending how the artist interpertited the passage. The character would often be siting with a book and have trees somewhere in the landscape however the details differ. This is very similar to what many people do today with fanart. The influences of other works also has an affect on this the source uses the example of the illustrates used in the Tale of Genji to highlight the themes used in paintings are from classical literature. ]]> 2021-11-03 06:54:00 UTC https://padlet.com/elianadromero/rtcv9jfi5ffgx22g/wish/1863852494