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Japanese Culture

Japanese Culture. Japan is an archipelago in far East Asia The Japanese enjoy the activities that are most valued are the performing arts, visual art, architecture, flower arranging The dominant religions that are practice in the Japanese culture is Buddhism and Shinto

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Japanese Culture

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  1. Japanese Culture Japan is an archipelago in far East Asia The Japanese enjoy the activities that are most valued are the performing arts, visual art, architecture, flower arranging The dominant religions that are practice in the Japanese culture is Buddhism and Shinto In Japan their people have a strict diet of fish and rice because of their geographic location near the pacific ocean On the right is an example of Japanese theater called Kabuki, a staged drama, where women are both the female and male characters

  2. Japanese Culture This is a picture of women flower arranging or known as Ikebana in Japan, a discipline in arranging flowers showing shape, line and form.

  3. Japanese Music Classical Japanese Music is not something you can clap to the beat because it goes by an interval of Ma Ma is the silence within the music Japanese Music flows with the feeling of nature

  4. Japanese Musical Instruments Popular traditional Japanese instruments include Tsuri-daiko, Hichiriki, Tonkori and Samisen. a three-stringed musical Instrument that resembles a banjo.

  5. Japanese Musical Instruments This is an example of Shamisen, a three-stringed musical Instrument that resembles a banjo.

  6. Musical Occasions  Japanese music associates with special events such as lullabies and communal music and dance which is associated with the worship of spirit deities,festivals, and theater plays.

  7. Japanese Musical Occasions • The picture on the left is a image of the Cherry Blossom festival  • This  festival celebrates the entire season of the blooming Cherry Blossom •  The instruments that are being played by the band are called, Kakko, which is traditionally a large, heavy drum played on ground level

  8. Continued Interesting Info Modern day Japan harvest a number of enjoyable activities. In the picture in the right it shows a girl dressing up as the character Yuna from Final Fantasy X-2 This act of dressing up as a character from an Anime of a game is called cosplay

  9. Interesting Information This is a girls toilet used in Japan. The image above shows how the toilet should be used.

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