I. BACKGROUND INFORMATION FOR TEACHERS

Teacher Instructions

1. Before class prepare the handouts and the transparencies.
   
   
2. Show Transparency 1 and ask the students what they know about the picture. (Drawn by Katsushika Hokusai, woodblock prints, ukiyo-e, Edo period, Mt. Fuji) Tell the class that they are going to learn more about Katsushika Hokusai. 
   
   
3. Distribute the handout and have the students do the reading activity (Activity 1). Review their answers.
   
   
4. Have the students do 1) of Activity 2. Review their answers. Have them do 2). Review the answers.
   
   
5. Have the students do Activity 3 and 4. Review their answers.
   
   
6. Show Transparency 2 and do the activity as a whole class.
   
   
7. Show Transparency 3. Show animation of sparrow dance pictures 北斎漫画ワールド(http://www.hokusai.gr.jp/mangwa/info/main-J.html). (Click on アニメ.) and 絵コンテ and animation of the contemporary animation at 活動漫画館式動画講座.
   http://www.hm.h555.net/~nosferatu/kouza

Answer Key to Student Activities

1.
1) 江戸時代の有名な画家で、富士山の浮世絵をよく描いた。
2) お手本として、人や自然をスケッチした。
3) 「漫画」
4) 人や自然の動きをよく表している。

2.
1) 男の人が二人、女の人は一人、それから小さい子供が一人います。みんな楽しそうに笑っています。楽器（しゃみせん）を演奏している人がいます。歌っているかもしれません。
2) 男：a.        女：d. (or a.)

3. Examples: 助けてくれ。こわいよう。たいへんだあ。

4.
1) b.
2) e.g., She is scaring the man.
3) b.
4) e.g., He looks surprised and scared.
5) 幽霊：introduce: うらめしや      
侍：たすけてくれえ。わあ、こわいよう。

Notes

北斎漫画
http://www.hokusai.gr.jp/mangwa/

北斎漫画劇場　Hokusai Sketch Gallery (Flash animations)
http://ugokie.diginauts.com/hokusai/

II. STUDENT ACTIVITY HANDOUTS

1. Read the following paragraph and answer the questions in Japanese.

<Useful Vocabulary>

1. えどじだい：Edo Period	2. ゆうめいな
3. がか：painter	4. ふじさん
5. うきよえ：ukiyoe woodblock print	6. でし：student
7. てほん：example	8. しぜん：nature
9. AをBとよぶ：call A as B	10. げんざい：present day
11. ことば：word	12. はじまり
13. 〜しゅう：collection of 〜	14. あらわす：express

1) 葛飾北斎は何をした人ですか。

2) 北斎は弟子のために何をしましたか。

3) 北斎は弟子のために描いたスケッチを何と呼びましたか。

4) 北斎漫画の特徴（とくちょう：characteristics) は何ですか。

2. Look below at Hokusai's drawings of people from the "Hokusai-manga" and answer the questions.

1) Discuss in pairs. Describe the people in the picture in Japanese. Who are they? What are they doing? What do they look like?

2) How do you suppose the laughing of the man in the further left and woman in the right sound? Choose the appropriate laughter from below. Draw a balloon for each of them in the picture and write the appropriate sound in it.

a. ワッハッハ        b. シクシク           c. ワーワー          d. ホホホ

3. Look at Hokusai's drawing of natural scenes. What do you think the people in the boat might be saying? Draw a bubble in the picture and write what they are saying.

4. Look at another drawing from the "Hokusai-manga" below and answer the following questions.

1) What do you suppose the creature on the top left of the picture is? First, using a kanji dictionary, look up what each of the following option is pronounced and what it means.

a. 怪獣
b. 幽霊
c. 宇宙人

2) What is it doing?

3) Which occupation does the person in the bottom right picture hold? Look up the words you don't know using a kanji dictionary. 

a. 侍
b. 農民
c. お坊さん

4) How does he look?

5) What expressions might each of the characters in the picture be uttering? In pairs, come up with some expressions. Draw a bubble for each person in the picture and write the expression in it.

III. VISUAL AIDS FOR TEACHERS

Transparency 1

葛飾北斎「富士三十六景　神奈川沖浪裏」

Transparency 2

Compare the 16^th century paintings from Europe (left) and Japan (right) by paying attention to the people's faces. What do you find?

Giovanni Battista Bertucci the Younger, "The Virgin and Christ Child with 4 Saints," 1591	常磐光永（ときわのみつなが）伴大納言絵巻（はんだいなごんえまき）, 16th century

Transparency 3

北斎漫画　雀踊り図(Dancing sparrow), 19th century

IV. FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES

北斎漫画劇場　Hokusai Sketch Gallery
http://ugokie.diginauts.com/hokusai/ has many Flash animations of Hokusai-manga including the general populations' life in Edo-era Japan and spearmanship lesson. Show those animations to your students.