After viewing the set of images above for the first time, answer each of the following questions to the best of your ability:

1. List the basic features of Japanese geography you observed in the group of woodblock prints reviewed.

2. Describe aspects of human environmental adaptation as seen in the image set (that is, describe evidence as to how the Japanese fit into and utilize their natural environment).

3. Describe the Japanese climate and evidence encountered of Japanese adaptation to climatic variations.

After viewing the set of woodblock prints a second time, note new information concerning Japanese geography and climate, and evidence of human adaptation thereto, you observed in the image set. Compare these responses with those made earlier.

Which half of the exercise was easier for you to handle? Why? What observations about the best way to approach visual materials emerge from the experience you have just completed?