Culture Kinkaku-ji or ’The Temple of the Golden Pavilion’ in Kyoto‚ Special Historic Site‚ Special Place of Scenic Beauty‚ and UNESCO World Heritage Site; its torching by a monk in 1950 is the subject of a novel by Mishima. Main article: Culture of Japan See also: Japanese popular culture Japanese culture has evolved greatly from its origins. Contemporary culture combines influences from Asia‚ Europe and North America. Traditional Japanese arts include crafts such as ceramics‚ textiles‚ lacquerware
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alphabets‚ among them ancient Egyptian and Chinese characters. Cartoons over the ages‚ with creators such as Michelangelo‚ Leonardo da Vinci‚ Benjamin Franklin‚ and many others‚ slowly evolved in Europe. On the other side of the world‚ Katsushika Hokusai coined the term manga‚ literally "whimsical pictures‚" in 1814 to describe his woodblock prints. With the end of Japanese isolationism in the 1850s‚ American and European comic artists
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The study of Japanese literature is usually divided into classical Japanese literature and modern Japanese literature. Line of demarcation is 1868‚ the date of the Meiji Restoration. Pre-Meiji Japan Tokugawa Period (1600-1868) = Period of Great Peace = Maintenance of the status quo = Domains and Daimyō frozen in status 1. Official ideology -- Neo-Confucianism Before Tokugawa period‚ Confucianism played subordinate role in Japanese thought. Confucianism remained a secular moral and political
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Japanese Literature Reporters: Afable‚ Carlo Manasis‚ Fahra Afro-Asian Literature MTh 09:00 – 10:30 Japanese Literature I. Introduction Facts about Japan * Also known as “Land of the Rising Sun” * An archipelago made up of 6‚852 islands * Its capital is Tokyo * Japanese is its national language * The government is Unitary Parliamentary Constitutional Monarchy II. History of Japanese Literature Japanese Literature can be divided into four main periods: ancient‚
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HISTORY OF ANIME: Osamu Tezuka ________________________________________ (picture) Dr. Osamu Tezuka: Legend. by Brian Cirulnick "Walt Disney of Japan"‚ "God of Comics"‚ "A Legend in his Own Time". Many of these phrases will forever be used to describe Dr. Tezuka‚ but mere words cannot even begin to describe his work‚ or how it changed an industry‚ or even the incredible wealth of material produced by this one man. As I began to research this article‚ friends sent me copies of
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Melissa Cepero 0607407 Art and Visual Culture Susana Holguin-Veras Term Paper‚ Second Submission December 19th‚ 2012 “Garden at Sainte- Adresse‚ 1867” Oscar Claude Monet painted “Garden at Sainte- Adresse” in 1867. Seven years later “after an art exhibition in 1874‚ a critic insultingly dubbed Monet’s painting style ‘Impression‚’ since it was more concerned with form and light than realism‚ and the term stuck.” Not only did the term stick but gave both name and rise to a new style
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Culture of Japan The culture of Japan has evolved greatly over the millennia‚ from the country’s prehistoric Jōmon period‚ to its contemporary hybrid culture‚ which combines influences from Asia‚ Europe‚ and North America. The inhabitants of Japan experienced a long period of relative isolation from the outside world during the Tokugawa shogunate‚ until the arrival of "The Black Ships" and the Meiji period. Fūjin and Raijin‚ Tawaraya Sōtatsu‚ 17th century. Pine Trees‚ Hasegawa Tōhaku Japanese
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THE REPORT OF THE ENGLISH PROJECT JAPAN Foreign language‚ English 33202 English Reading – Writing Preface This English project‚ Japan‚ is a part of the Foreign language courses‚ English 33202‚ English Reading – Writing‚ Objective 3. The main purpose of the Project work is to be able to get information from various kinds of sources by using English as a tool of communication. Our group work on Japan as a title of the project and we get information from website
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(44 b.c.); Augustus proclaimed Emperor (27 b.c.); Diocletian splits Empire (a.d. 292); Rome falls (a.d. 476) Indian‚ Chinese‚ and Japanese(653 b.c.–a.d. 1900) Serene‚ meditative art‚ and Arts of the Floating World Gu Kaizhi‚ Li Cheng‚ Guo Xi‚ Hokusai‚ Hiroshige Birth of Buddha (563 b.c.); Silk Road opens (1st century b.c.); Buddhism spreads to China (1st–2nd centuries a.d.) and Japan (5th century a.d.) Byzantine and Islamic (a.d. 476–a.d.1453) Heavenly Byzantine mosaics; Islamic architecture
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Tsunami [pic] INTRODUCTION The term tsunami comes from the Japanese language meaning harbour ("tsu") and wave ("nami"). Although in Japanese tsunami is used for both the singular and plural‚ in English tsunamis is well-established as the plural. The term was created by fishermen who returned to port to find the
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