Select two art works from Japanese culture and explain several ways in which these works illustrate Japanese tastes for simple forms and natural materials

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Responses will vary depending on the selection of artwork. Japanese culture comes into clearer focus during the first centuries of our era. Cylindrically shaped terra-cotta figures, called haniwa, embody the taste for simple forms and natural material. Housed in a structure made of raised wooden piles and a thatched roof, the shrines are left unpainted as the haniwa were left unglazed.

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