This photo was taken at Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. The painting was painted by Utagawa Kuniyoshi. The text on the picture is Japanese. The painting shows a woman pulling a striped fabric. The theme of the painting is to thank the guards of baotaro who answered the prayer. Ukiyoe masters at the end of the edo period used novel designs, unrestrained ideas and solid painting skills to break through the framework of ukiyoe and create many attractive works. He was one of the representative painters in the late period of ukiyo-e painting school. In the class, the Japanese class covered how to use three writing systems. For kanji, hiragana and katakana. In the picture I took, there are Chinese characters and hiragana. In context, it is an embodiment of the meaning to be expressed in the work. The purpose of these Japanese words is to tell the viewer what the picture means.

So far, my classroom experience has been good, except for many professional words and sentences that I need to concentrate on taking time to remember and digest. The upcoming mid-term exam is a challenge for me. I don’t know anything about the classroom materials, but there are many concepts and knowledge that I need to spend time to learn and distinguish. I will constantly review the presentation and memorize it over and over again, because my learning method is to keep learning for a long time and get certain satisfactory results.