Japan--Culture Smart! by Paul Norbury

Author:Paul Norbury
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Kuperard
Published: 2017-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

Once everyone has gone through this ritual, the ice is broken and the party can continue at a more intimate level. Incidentally, some of the latest equipment is so sophisticated, it will improve your performance for you!

CULTURAL LIFE

It is remarkable that the country that embraced modernization (and in some respects “Westernization”) with such vigor in the late nineteenth century should have sustained its cultural heritage in such breadth and depth. Certainly, as we have seen, both the Shinto and Buddhist traditions provide the bedrock of this continuity, combined with the historical tradition of what might be called “family vocation.” Over the centuries, individual families have sustained particular craft skills, whether it be making dolls, or swords, or dyeing cloth; in the arts there have been similar “family lines,” such as actors for kabuki (a popular form of drama), noh (a highly stylized theatrical form using face masks), bunraku (puppets), or kyogen (comic drama linked to noh).

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