The artworks collected included those of Eizan, Hokusai, Hiroshige, Sharoku, and Suzuki Harunobi among others. These artworks flowed into Europe, especially France, after the trade relations between Europe and Japan were initiated by Mathew Perry’s trips to Japan, ending in the formation of trade agreements. The artists that triggered the fusion were Henry Touluse-Lautrec and Edgar Degas, who sought to comprehend the attraction of ukiyo-e, which they saw as grounded in the Japanese art of the early 17th century. Some of the art characteristics transmitted through the influence were decorative patterns, printing styles, and family crests (Flynn
From Rope Marks to Silken Layers: A comparison of Jōmon Pottery and Japanese Court Clothing from 645 to 1333 Abstract: This paper is about the cultural importance of pottery to the Jōmon people and of clothing for the courtiers of the Nara to Kamakura periods and of the shift from items having an ordinary beauty to becoming a distinct art form sacrificing practicality in lieu of aesthetic beauty reflecting a common Japanese cultural trait of doing such. The main focus of court clothing is on the transition of clothing from the Nara to the Heian, and the Heian to Kamakura periods. The main focus of Jōmon pottery will be on its changes of usage, making methods and importance over the five (5) main Jōmon periods, Earliest, Early, Middle, Late and Latest with a focus on the Middle to Late periods and on the transition from the Latest period to the beginning of Yayoi influence. Today food and clothing are seen as ordinary and everyday aspects of life, important in that they are necessary but usually seem ordinary because they are daily aspects of life. For the Japanese there has been a trend of taking aspects of everyday life and detailing and abstracting them such that their original purpose and daily practicality is somewhat lost.
They shared their culture with the Achaens and Dorians of Ancient Greece and Rome but adapted their ways to those of the Indus River valley. The culture that developed as a result of this convergence of cultural beliefs was very different from that of their ancestors. Modern-day Indian spirituality is based on the foundations of Indo-Aryan texts such as the Rig Veda, “one of the oldest Indo-European literary/philosophical works,” and the Upanishads. The focus of the Rig Veda is “rituals and prayers that lead to acceptance of earthly life.” The gods featured in the Rig Veda are “personifications of natural forces” just as the gods of early Greece. The Upanishads takes a turn away from the phenomena of natural forces and focuses on the “inner life and transcendental
Trinidad and Tobago is a rich cosmopolitan republic. History of Japan Nara Period (ca AD 710-794) Buddhism became the national religion and Buddhist art and architecture flourished. Provincial temples called Kokubunj were set up throughout Japan. It was during this period that the Great Buddha at the Todaiki temple in Nara was built. Heian Period (794-1185) The capital moved to what is now Kyoto and the Fujiwara family gained control of the government.
Not until Edo period did Confucianism in Japan flourish and entered its peak era, becoming what is known as Japanese Confucianism (Ping & Lili 2010). The three dominant schools of philosophy in Japan were led by Yamaga Sokou, Ito Jinsai and Ogyuu-Sorail. Although the leaders were separated by the differences in their thoughts, they all agreed that Japanese society should be guided by the theory and philosophy of classic Confucianism (Ping & Lili, 2010). While the essence of Confucianism was absorbed by Japanese thinkers at that time, it adopted some unique factors of Japan’s folk customs in order to make it closer to Japanese society. Classic Chinese Confucianism stressed the harmony among social members.
Korea is located on the eastern tip of the Asian continent, in the small peninsula that faces the Pacific Ocean. This small country has lasted over four thousand years, withstanding its powerful neighbors and developed a unique culture of its own. One of its main unique features comes from the fact that it pursued Confucianism as its core ideology. Therefore, even though Confucianism started in China, the application of it can be traced also distinctly in Korea. The Dynasty of Joseon brought the principals of Confucianism, and indigenized it to fit its existing values.
Even if there have been several influential predominant cultures that penetrated and conquered the leadership throughout the centuries (namely Mongolian and Manchurian cultures, Buddhism and also partially Islamism). In Modern Era the idea of a collective Chinese identity has focused on the basis that Chinese population is composed for the great majority by people belonging to Han cultural and ethnic group. Since the end of the Empire and the foundation of the Chinese Nationalist Republic in 1911, and throughout the process that led to the creation of People’s Republic of China in 1949 until the very present day, Chinese rulers had made a strong effort to legitimate their power, creating a new modern Chinese identity that could be shared by the multitude of different ethnic, cultural and religious identities scattered all around the immense territories that we now call China. From the start of the modernization process it has been a central question for the intellectuals of the beginning of the century to determine what must be preserved and what should be abandoned in the traditional
Derk Bodde and Clarence Morris held that the concept of fǎ had an association with yì (義: "social rightness"). Yan Fu, in his Chinese translation of Montesquieu's De l'esprit des lois published in 1913, warned his readers about the difference between the Chinese fǎ and Western law: "The word 'law' in Western languages has four different interpretations in Chinese as in lǐ (理: "order"), lǐ (禮: "rites", "decorum"), fǎ (法: "human laws") and zhì (制: "control"). A term which preceded fǎ was xíng (刑), which originally
It supports its claims using legal terms, geographical considerations, and historical ties with the islands. China further argues that Japan’s longstanding claim on the islands is based on the developments of the Sino-Japanese War, which was fought between 1894 and 1895, whereby the country allegedly seized the islands from China through illegal means. China further argues that Japan’s claim to the islands was further reinforced when Washington placed them under its trusteeship after Japan occupied the islands after the war. In contrast, Japan’s claim on the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands is anchored on the argument that it surveyed
Self-realization or Inner self is a concept that has become widely popular in the Western World. It has been greatly influenced by some Eastern religions. For instance, for the Hindu religion self-realization refers to a profound spiritual awakening where there is an awakening from an illusory self identify image (Ego), to the true, divine, perfect condition that the individual is. The branch of Advaita Vedanta is the one that has especially developed this concept. [1] Furthermore, the method of meditation Sahaja Yoga, created in 1970 by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, defines self realization as a connection with your self or the first encounter with reality.