Sentences with phrase «japanese cultural tradition»

The best example of the hyprocisy and emptiness of the Japanese «its about maintaining a Japanese cultural tradition» argument is that the Japanese themselves essentially wiped off the face of Japan all their samurais in the latter part of the 19th century (go see Tom Cruise and Ken Wattanabe in The Last Samurai to see what I'm talking about).

The festival celebrates the Japanese cultural tradition of enjoying each moment of the cherry blossom season.

Not exact matches

Our emphasis on the holistic approach to Naturopathy means your study will focus on many of the world's major cultural traditions of natural medicine, including Chinese, Japanese and Ayurvedic medicine.

The Kizuna Coast is the 11th mystery in a series featuring Rei Shimura, a young Japanese - American woman who solves mysteries that delve into Asian cultural traditions.

In this exhibition, Mr. Dob continues Murakami's interest in playing with the signifying conditions of contemporary Japanese culture caught between tradition and a Western cultural postmodernism wrought Read More»

Satirical, critical, yet matter of fact and at times poignant, his work draws both on Japanese tradition and Western Modernism, fusing the two in ways which are a model for the cultural transformations now attributed to younger artists in an age of globalization.

Her key works include Mingei Theory and Japanese Modernisation: Cultural National - ism and Oriental Orientalism, «Transnational Modern Design Histories in East Asia» and «Negotiating Histories: Traditions in Modern and Contemporary Asia - Paci c Art.»

The artist draws from a range of Japanese and African - American cultural trends in her «a3» (Afro - Asiatic Allegory) series: ukiyo - e, hip hop culture, blackface performance tradition, and ganguro.

Another striking aspect of contemporary Japanese art is its rootedness in national cultural and craft traditions.