ART 203: Prof. Guest's Ritual/Pilgrimage Project: Films

It takes warriors hours to don the complicated, elaborate battle dress in preparation for combat. The top Samurai wears the most armor, or yoroi, for maximum protection in battle.

This program, a study of the samurai code of honor, sheds light on the history of Japan while helping to explain how the samurai mentality left an enduring imprint on the psyche of future generations.

The tea ceremony originated in China but was transformed in Japan into an art of infinite resonance with precise rules and formulations. This program is devoted to the Omote Sen-ke school. It shows the uniquely Japanese way in which its traditions are handed down from generation to generation, and demonstrates that suspension in time by which Japanese paying obeisance to a 400-year-old tradition live in the past and the present simultaneously.