TEACH JAPAN
Resources for students and educators
TEACH JAPAN
Resources for students and educators
Discover how artists depicted samurai to explore legends and communicate social and political messages through musha-e, prints depicting warriors.
Learn the history and various functions of samurai armor during Japan’s shogunate.
Students will use images of samurai armor and weaponry to learn related vocabulary. They will describe the functional and aesthetic aspects of armor through focused viewing and reading, and they will draw conclusions about the changing code of the samurai over the course of 800 years.
Find out more about TeachJapan.
Lead funding for the Asian Art Museum’s TeachJapan is generously provided by The Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership.
Additional support is provided by Susan and Kevin McCabe.
Teach Japan was created in collaboration with the following arts organizations:
