Kimono

Dejima yujo de-Kawari no zu (Deshima Prostitute with Fan) is a woodblock print by an anonymous artist in Nagasaki, Japan c. 1800. The print was purchased from C.R. Boxer in 1951, collected by J.C. Pabst and is currently held in the British Museum collection in London. Deshima Prostitute with Fan is a good example of Nagasaki-e prints, which are recognizable through their depictions of Dutch people, ships and exotic animals. A derivative of the popular Ukiyo-e print genre, Nagasaki-e prints were…

Relationships in Japan “Nuclear Family” is a term I had not heard of until this past year. It is defined as “a couple and their dependent children, regarded as a basic social unit.” This is what the typical family looks like, however, in the three works we read and watched in class, The Old Capital, Woman in the Dunes, and Ikiru, the families are not typical. The Old Capital centers on a girl named Chieko, who is adopted by a loving couple, but she learns she has a sister and that her…

What is Cultural appropriation? Cultural appropriation: is a sociological concept which views the adoption or use of elements of one culture by members of a different culture as a largely negative phenomenon. It has become normalized in media to take specific components from different cultures and weave it into “trends” while downplaying the significance of those same components to their cultures. While cultural appropriation seems harmless to those who do it, it is demoralizing to those…

The pictures in this book are very life like. He makes his pictures not only something to look at but you can physically see how these characters feel and act. On page 6, readers area able to see what a hard worker the widow is as she sewed silk kimonos (The Boy of the Three Year Nap pg. 1). Another example is on page 7; readers can actually see how lazy taro is as he lays there while his mother works. Say says this is how some people are in Japan and he bases his paintings off really families…

you could really see the diversity and the different types of people that were there. We sight-seen for a bit, and my mother and sister tried to buy everything they could get their hands on but as you can probably guess my sister eventually bought a kimono and my mother bought one as well along with a purse. Although, I did not buy anything I was still shocked and intrigued by how much fascinating merchandise was there. Yet, after seeing all the different foods they had to offer in the cultural…

TOPIC 2 : BUKIT TINGGI PAHANG i. Introduction : Bukit Tinggi is a highalnd that located at the Bentong district of Pahang in Malaysia. In recent years, Bukit Tinggi Highland is considered as the newest highlands in Malaysia apart from some well-known highlands such as Genting Highland, Kundasang, Cameron Highland and Fraser’s Hill. The founder of Berjaya Groups, Tan Sri Dato' Seri Vincent Tan Chee Yioun bought 16000 acres of tropical forest at the Bukit Tinggi Pahang and he tends to make Bukit…

Literacy can be defined as the flexible and sustainable mastery to make meaning with texts of traditional and new communication technologies through spoken language, print and multi-media (Rush, 2004). There are many different literacy theories but one that is widely used in Australia curriculum is called the four resources model introduced by Luke and Freeboy in 1990, which includes multi-literacies framework that supports children on their reading and writing development. According to Luke and…

On October twenty fifth, nineteen forty-four it was a nice clear morning on Leyte Island in the Philippines. The sunrise is in full effect, and nearby the Japanese Naval Fleet has amassed a large concentration of firepower approximately 25 miles from United States ships positioned in the area. 6:45 am the first shots were fired from 20 miles away and the battle had begun. 24 Japanese Zero’s, Japan’s first squadron of Kamikaze pilots approached on the horizon. Then, as if from a scene in some…

Flack, Marjorie, and Kurt Wiese. The Story about Ping. New York, NY: [Viking], 1933. Print. Ping was an adventurous duck who lived on a beautiful wise-eyed boat on the Yangtze River. He liked his life on the riverboat just and liked his large family and his kind master. He didn't like to be the last in line to board the boat at night, for that unlucky duck got a loud spank. So what did Ping do when it seemed that he would be the last on line? What else but set out on his own to explore the…

biological, daughter. Stella-Ronda becomes frustrated with Sister and starts a rumor that Sister wants Papa-Daddy to chop off his beard. This infuriates Papa-Daddy and he leaves to be alone. Next Uncle Rondo becomes angry when Stella-Ronda mocks him in the kimono, but he eventually calms down as the story continues. After a giant explosion of fighting, Sister decides she is independent and moves to the post office (P.O.). Though her family isn 't so happy and this little action tears the town in…