TERMS FOR TEST
TERMS FOR SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS
Western views of “nature”
Transcendental dualism
Romanticism
Preservationism
The social construction of nature
Three fundamental meanings of “nature”
History (dates only) (one point each)
Buddha
Buddhism’s arrival in Japan
Heian period of Japan
Medieval period of Japan
Tokugawa period of Japan
Buddhism & Japanese religions (three points each)
Mahayana
Zen
Four Noble Truths
Emptiness
Impermanence
Nonduality: see articles on Buddhism in East Asia <on e-reserve> and on yūgen <in study aids>
Shinto
Taoism & Chinese Aesthetics (three points each)
Nonbeing
Tao
Heaven
Creative
Classical Japanese literature: poetic terms and forms (three points each)
kokoro and kotoba and relationship between them: (IJCP 18-20, 34-35, glossary)
waka
renga
aware
yūgen
Classical Japanese literature: themes (three points each)
fragmentation and integration and relationship between them (IJCP 27-29, 155-158)
courtliness/conventionality and natural feeling/spontaneity and relation between them (IJCP 7-11)
nature (IJCP 146-150)
love (IJCP 151-153)
time (IJCP 154ff)
dream and reality (IJCP 152-153)
TERMS FOR full paragraph definitions (ten points each)
The Creative
Yūgen
Aware
