Japanese traditional dolls Essays

  • History of Japanese Art

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    role in Japanese culture. These forms of artwork varied from everything from pottery to clay figurines. Overall, the majority of Japanese art was and still is considered to be of high importance in Japanese history. However, the most intriguing and unique form of art was the Isho-ningyo and Iki-ningyo dolls, otherwise known as the "fashion doll" and the “living doll”. Both the Isho-ningyo and the Iki-ningyo were merely two of the plentiful assortment of dolls created by the famous Japanese artisan

  • UP IN THE AIR: CONFLICTING FEMALE REPERESENTATIONS IN KORE-EDA HIROKAZU’S AIR DOLL

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    of women in Japanese cinema has been varied. Director Kenji Mizoguchi has portrayed, “an ambivalent attitude toward women….an attitude of mixed adulation, pity and fear toward women” in his films. Ozu Yasujiro, in such films as I Was Born But… (1932), features female characters who are passive and fail at keeping their family together once patriarchal power goes missing. Sharp contrasts are the films of Naruse Mikio whose heroines, “are thinking, active women." Contemporary Japanese movie director

  • Japanese Food and Celebrations

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    in every country. Whether it’s celebrating or eating food, there’s always something people do as a tradition. The foods and celebrations in Japan are important because they are part of their tradition, which is essential to Japanese everywhere. The best example of a Japanese celebration is Golden Week. Firstly, it is a cluster of national holidays between April 29 and May 5 (Kids Web Japan). There are many celebrated things on this day. Furthermore, most big companies close down for a week or even

  • Bunraku Theatre: The Love Suicide At Sonezaki

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    Theatre Research Question: Is there a common aspect from the play “The love Suicide at Sonezaki” that can be seen in the costumes in the Bunraku Theatre? Word Count: Bunraku theatre is a form of traditional Japanese puppet theatre, a form of art, which the Japanese people are very proud of. The name “Bunraku” comes from the theatre that the puppet drama plays were originally performed, but the name was used so commonly that it eventually took on that name as the official name

  • The Influence Of Culture In The Culture Of The Japanese Culture

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    of the strongest economies in the world. The Japanese is known for the unique clothing, food, hot springs and cherry blossoms. They have a unique way of life influenced by their culture. A culture would also influence how an advertisement would be illustrated when targeting a specific culture. The way the selling message is disseminated will be altered based on how a culture communicates with one another. This essay will be discussing how the Japanese culture can be captured through advertisements

  • Barbie Case Study Model

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    Barbie doll has become a well-known toy brand in the United States and from around the globe. Mattel, the company who owns the Barbie brand, relies on the success of Barbie dolls, consisting around 20 percent of its sales annually. Despite being the world's largest toy maker, challenges have faced its Barbie brand from region to region.   In the United States, young girls are investing more time with electronic devices such as cell phones and music players than playing with their Barbie dolls. Another

  • Culture: Causes And Types Of Hegemonic Culture

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    culture. Accept good thing adds traditional culture of the own country. It means that if accept cultural hegemony, accept country losing their own culture. For example,

  • Gender Roles in Japanese Culture

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    stereotypes. These changes in gender roles are directly correlated with the alterations in societal advancement. The changes in societal and cultural development over the course of history can be thoroughly recognized in specifically Japanese culture. Although gender roles in Japanese culture deviates from western norms, perpetual emphasis is placed in adopting desirable characteristics for men and women in media and society (Kincaid, 2013). Contrarily, professional studies, conducted by Yoko Sugihara and

  • Japanese Art Research Paper

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     A Japanese print is a type of Japanese illustration applied to paper from carved wooden blocks. The most famous Japanese impressions were produced from the early sixteenth to the late eighteenth hundreds. Those prints were famous for their brilliant designs, bold colors, and technical quality. Most of the Japanese prints featured scenes from everyday life or from the theater and other spectacular forms of entertainment. The Japanese referred to these fleeting moments of life and elusive amusements

  • The Beauty Of Cherry Blossom Festivals

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    rosy snowfall. The short-lived life of the Japanese cherry blossom, or sakura, has become a symbol of fleeting beauty to the Japanese, and its blossoming is an occurrence widely celebrated throughout the country of Japan. Hanami, or flower viewing, is a tradition of the Japanese culture created in the Nara Period (710-793 AD) where many convene together to celebrate the beauty of the flowers during cherry blossom festivals (Anonymous 24). This traditional custom in admiration of beauty still takes

  • Japanese Anime Culture

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    people to china learning culture, also in Edo period (1633) locked their country and not allow the people get in, that time, japan have develop their own Japanese style culture. After the Meiji Restoration, japan open their country again, in this time, Japan start to get much information of the world, westernization in a fast way. But the traditional culture must getting change because the whole country are live under the western culture, not just in the citizen mind, the city building style also change

  • Ted Cohen High And Low Audience Analysis

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    their past that is found in the one rare moment of my father’s stroke on that same canvas, a similarity shown between a professional and an amateur decades before my own. Folk illustration prints a visual story of individual culture, a creation of traditional lifestyle and meaning. A cultural heirloom handed down citizen to citizen and is easily forgettable but not completely forgotten. In Daniel Walsh’s article, Art as socially constructed narrative: Implications for early childhood education, he suggests

  • Fashion Globalization Essay

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    elements of the good itself (Chang, 2004). Chang’s discussion focused on the effect of ‘superlogos’, or high-fashion brands such as Chanel and Louis Vuitton, tracing the growth in fake products to the Japanese period of ‘logomania’ in the 1980s. During this period, explosive growth of the Japanese economy led to one of the highest per-capita incomes in the world (Chang, 2004). It also led to a shift in consumption patterns, with the previous consumption patterns set by American occupiers (an ‘American’

  • Asian Wedding Cake

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    increasingly becoming popular. As such the Asian wedding cakes are baked in exquisite designs and delicious taste. Meaning: The phrase ‘Asian wedding cakes’ is a comprehensive term meaning cakes of different countries or cultures in Asia, like Japanese wedding cakes, Chinese wedding cakes, Indian wedding cakes, Korean wedding cakes and so on. The diversities of the wedding culture or tradition of these countries have lead to a wide variety of wedding cake designs, patterns and also taste. The Asian

  • Misako's Book Report

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    Kaname he feels a women should either be a goddess or a plaything and Misako is neither in Kaname's eyes which sets Misako out to find someone who can give her the pleasures that she desires. Kaname and Misako's relationship is based more on the traditional marriage then they think. Kaname treating Misako with respect but sees no use of her in a sexual or emotional level. Following this evidence, Misako seeks the satisfaction of her needs with Aso. While the social standards of this agreement

  • Differences And Summary Of Thomas Balmes's 'Babies'

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    in rearing children in different societies. It achieves this by cutting the scenes in certain ways to show the differences between these different children. For example, in one part of the film, both Bayarjargal (the Mongolian child) and Mari (the Japanese child) were playing with their pet cats and then the two scenes were edited to a shot of Ponijo (the Namibian child) looking interested in flies. The four children developed in somewhat similar ways. However, there are differences in their behaviors

  • Urban Legends and Contemporary Ghost Stories in Japan

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    that are part of the so called “Kaidan: A Collection of New Tales” (Japanese Title: 怪談:新耳袋). Each story has a title and a number, is about five minutes long and usually in itself complete and independent. Rarely do they have a second part which is not clearly indicated to the viewer, but rather shown through other details like identical names or appearances. Additionally I will give a short historical summary of the development Japanese horror from the 1950s until today. Primarily, the first story I

  • Personal Narrative-Destruction Of Japanese Culture

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    Even though none of my relatives were killed or tortured by the Japanese, I am still afraid. I am afraid that my vicarious wounds still linger inside me, affecting everything I do. I know that they destroyed our cultural and spiritual circle that we maintained for five thousand years. They just had to leave a natural trace that actually became part of us. I don't know if I should hate them. It is ignorantly and unwittingly buried deeply in our unconsciousness. Natural hatred and attraction, like

  • Harmonious culture in Little Saigon

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    These days, many migrants gather together and make their own small place to hold their cultures. Because their cultures are more a blend of multiple cultures rather than a traditional, they are different each other. However, even though a mixed culture seems like a unique non-traditional, it is as same as one strong culture. In the story, Culture is Ordinary, Raymond William says, “every human society has its own shape, its own purposes, its own meanings. Every human society expresses these, in institutions

  • An Analysis Of Asian Superiority By Ronald Takaki And Growing Up Asian In America

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    essays that depict the state of Asian immigrants in America. The authors are both Asian Americans themselves and their words bear fruit from a lifetime of personal experiences of being a viewed upon as an alien in their own land. Ronald Takaki was Japanese- American whose forefathers had immigrated to Hawaii to work in the sugar plantations. Having grown up in Hawaii among other Asian Americans and Hawaii Islanders, Robert never felt out of place. Why would he? He always blended in. It wasn’t until