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Japanese traditional dance describes a number of Japanese dance styles with a long history and prescribed method of performance. Some of the oldest forms of traditional Japanese dance may be among those transmitted through the kagura tradition, or folk dances relating to food producing activities such as planting rice ( dengaku ) and fishing ...
Ann Takamaki (高巻 杏, Takamaki An, IPA: [ta̠ka̠ma̠kʲi ã̠ɴ], Anne Takamaki in the Japanese version) is one of the main characters in the 2016 video game Persona 5.She is a Japanese-American teenage girl and a second-year student at the fictional Shujin Academy.
[12] [13] [14] Such words which use certain kanji to name a certain Japanese word solely for the purpose of representing the word's meaning regardless of the given kanji's on'yomi or kun'yomi, a.k.a. jukujikun, is not uncommon in Japanese. Other original names in Chinese texts include Yamatai country (邪馬台国), where a Queen Himiko lived.
Chinese dynasties, particularly the Tang dynasty, have influenced Japanese culture throughout history and brought it into the Sinosphere. After 220 years of isolation, the Meiji era opened Japan to Western influences, enriching and diversifying Japanese culture. Popular culture shows how much contemporary Japanese culture influences the world. [2]
Bugaku (舞楽, court dance and music [1]) is a Japanese traditional dance that has been performed to select elites, mostly in the Japanese imperial court, for over twelve hundred years. In this way, it has been known only to the nobility, although after World War II , the dance was opened to the public and has even toured around the world in 1959.
Sumako Hamaguchi (9 May 1918 – 22 February 2023), known by her stage name Fujima Kansuma (藤間 勘須磨, Kansuma Fujima) was a Japanese-American kabuki dancer.She taught more than 2,000 dancers, 50 of whom have been granted professional standing by kabuki grandmasters.
In Yugano, where the group rests for the night, the narrator learns from Eikichi that the young woman, Kaoru, is his 14 year old sister. The other troupe members are Eikichi's wife Chiyoko, his mother-in-law, and a maid. In the evening, the musicians entertain guests in another inn in the village.
Tatsumi Hijikata (土方 巽, Hijikata Tatsumi, March 9, 1928 – January 21, 1986) was a Japanese choreographer, and the founder of a genre of dance performance art called Butoh. [1] By the late 1960s, he had begun to develop this dance form, which is highly choreographed with stylized gestures drawn from his childhood memories of his northern ...