Another Manifestation of the Armenian-Ja...

In the frameworks of the cultural grant project the Government of Japan replenished the National Gallery of Armenia with the equipment for the reconstruction of paintings. The provision of technique to the National Gallery of Armenia, which is envisaged for the reconstruction of pictorial, graphical and wood-engraving works was carried out by the Governments of Japan and Armenia and with the efforts of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Ministry of Culture of RA. The ceremony of handing the equipment took place today on November 8th, 2011 at the...

Peace memorial was erected In Yerevan sy...

6/28/14 YEREVAN, on JUNE 25, Armenpress: 69 years later of Hiroshima atomic bombing on June 25, 2014 peace memorial-stone was placed in Yerevan municipality children park symbolizing that tragedy. According to «Armenpress» report, memorial-stone reminds us about the peace importance and symbolic step towards the Armenian-Japanese relations. The solemn ceremony opening of memorial-stone was attended by the senior officials from the Armenian legislative and executive bodies, from Japan delegation and representatives of Yerevan municipality.　Greating the participants,...

Ukiyo-e Japanese wood carving exhibition...

Today on November 8, the National Gallery of Armenia for the second time opened Ukiyo-e wood carving exhibition. First time such an exhibition was organized in 1994. During the exhibition over 40 works were represented which had been created in the 19th century. It will last about a month. Exhibition partners are the Armenian-Japanese “Hikari” scientific center and Armenian representative of “JT International Luxembourg SA ” company. The exhibition opening ceremony was attended by Cikakhito Harada, the Russian Federation extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador...

Kabuki

Kabuki (歌舞伎) is Japanese traditional theater; its roots go back to the Edo era. It has been recognized as one of Japan’s three classic theaters; among them there are nohe and bunrakun. Kabuki was included in the UNESCO-’s intangible cultural heritage list. Kabuki is a way to bring art to the people. It covers detailed designed clothes, attractive makeup, unusual wigs, and the most important part is the actors exaggerated game. Early thought movements need for rendering the audience the meaning of the performance: it is very important because during the...

Japanese Choir Sings Ode to Armenia

Was sent by Liana Aghajanyan on March 23, 2011 During the days following the devastating earthquake, an earthquake that has struck the coast of Japan, there appeared in YouTube a video of  Japanese choir singing in Armenian the song “Yerevan darzaz im Erebouni”. The Armenians of the whole world, that were impressed by the astonishing multicultural performance of the choir, gladly shared the video in social networks such as Facebook and Twitter and sent good wishes to the Japanese during their hard times. During this video, which lasts for two minutes, a school choir...

Japanese culture

Japanese culture was originated from historical times. It was gone Asian, European and the North American influences. Traditional Japanese culture includes ceramics, making dolls and swords, bonraku, kabuki, playing new theatrical performances, dances, rakugo (when there is only one person on the stage and tells comic story). Tea-drinking ceremony, ikebana, military art, calligraphy, origami and onsen (resorts built near the natural resources), geishas are also considered to be the part of the Japanese culture. Beginning from the 20th century the animen and mangan were...

Interesting facts about Japanese Languag...

Japanese and Chinese hieroglyphs are the same only in a slight difference. Chinese hieroglyphs are more than in Japanese language. However, if a person knows Japanese so he or she can understand Chinese in general. There are three types of writing in Japanese language: hiragana (syllabic system used in writing Japan words), katakana (syllabic system used mainly in writing foreign words borrowed from other languages) and kandzi (hieroglyphs writing). There is also romadzi writing variant in Japanese language. It is the usage of Latin alphabet in writing Japanese language....