Sentences with phrase «japanese folk tales»

He continued the vigorous process of painting with his feet well into his eighties, exploring ideas of chance and performativity through themes related to Buddhism and Japanese folk tales.

Next, the robot told a longer 10 - minute story based on a little - known Japanese folk tale called My Lord Bag of Rice, which the student was unlikely to have heard before.

A magical novel, based on a Japanese folk tale, that imagines how the life of a broken - hearted man is transformed when he rescues an injured white crane that has landed in his backyard.

Representation is the key strategy for two artists: the Japanese American artist and community activist Tomie Arai's Momotoro / Peach Soy revisits the narrative of a Japanese folk tale, used as propaganda by the Japanese military during World War 11, by juxtaposing images taken from various sources.

Not exact matches

Miyazaki's greatest films have the organic quality of ancient fairy tales: The benevolent forest creatures in My Neighbor Totoro or the bathhouse - frequenting monsters of Spirited Away seem to spring full - blown from both Japanese folk culture and the deepest recesses of preverbal memory.

Takahata is best known for his touching war tragedy Grave of the Fireflies (1988) and while this latest isn't quite up there with his masterpiece, it's still a beautifully animated, well - acted, well - told version of the 10th century Japanese folk - tale on which it is based.

I'm thinking of a game that's based on worldwide folk stories / fairy tales where Mario can collect different power - ups based on them, whether it's mythical Japanese creatures, Dracula, ect.

Arslan's exploits extend from an ancient Persian folk - tale Amir Arslan, which has been reborn several times over in popular Japanese novels, mangas, and anime typically referred to as the Heroic Legend of Arslan.

First published in 1976, and taking its name from a collection of Japanese rural folk legends, Tales of Tono is a compact little volume composed of black - and - white photo diptychs and spreads that were shot in the countryside of northern Honshu, Japan.