Index to Resources Nature of the Beast is an educational and
interactive exploration of the way artists of Edo-period Japan
depicted animals and the natural world. It draws on the
extensive collections of the Pacific Asia Museum . This page
includes links to HTML versions of Flash content as well as
teaching ideas and resources for educators. PLEASE NOTE that
NATURE OF THE BEAST is only available as an online exhibit (only
some works may be found on display in the museum galleries).
These HTML pages replicate the text essays in the Flash section
and include links to larger images of each featured artwork
suitable for use in the classroom. Teacher resources include
lesson plans in the visual arts, language arts, social studies
and history, and science and suggestions for reading, links to
other web sites, and DVD viewing ideas. Nature of the Beast In
their training, Japanese artists of the Edo period probably
learned to draw and paint birds or insects or monkeys using
traditional models, which meant that they