HIS 227 / PSC 227, POWER AND AUTHORITY
IN NONWESTERN SOCIETIES

SPRING SEMESTER 2003

ASSIGNMENT FOURTEEN
DUE: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2003

This in-class exercise will begin with a simple assessment of your initial impressions of the pair of six-fold screens at the heart of the assigned web exercise. We will then move on to expand the range and emotional depth of meaning found in the screens as we gradually become more aware of the wide variety of poetic associations accumulated over the centuries by the associated twin images of "tall grasses" and "quail". By the conclusion of the exercise, you should be increasingly aware of the "soft power" impact of tradition on the "authority" resident in even modern day Japanese aesthetic standards.