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Golden Rain with Clock Mechanisms (video...

In 2014, DGT Architects company together with the Japanese CITIZEN Company producing watches has organized a unique installation, which brings to life the watches that are used in everyday life. During the installation titled “Light is Time” there were used the mechanisms of 65.000 clocks, which were hung in a dark room from black threads and were like the sparkling golden drops of rain. The installation was firstly exhibited in Milan with 80 000 mechanisms, but now it has been transported to Tokyo and will be continued until November 28.  It’s worth seeing with...
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The History of Japanese Clothing

Clothing (ifuku) in Japan is divided into two types: wafuku (clothing in Japanese style) and yofuku (clothing in the Western style). Nowadays “kimono” is called the type of dressing gown, which is fastened on the body with a belt. However, in the centuries past this type of clothing was called “kosode” (kimono can also mean the Japanese clothing in general). The history of Japanese traditional clothing is somehow the history of the development of kosode. In the result of the penetration of Buddhism and the system of Chinese government into Japan, there were adopted...
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What Is The Bonsai?

What Is The Bonsai?

Bonsai (盆栽) are potted miniature trees which are carefully styled to achieve an aesthetic effect. The concept was first imported into Japan from China more than a thousand years ago. Since then, a distinctive style of this art form has been developed in Japan. Various techniques such as the trimming of roots and wiring are used to keep the trees small but in proportion to how they might have looked if grown in nature. This achieves the effect of condensing the appearance of a natural tree or forest within the pot, leaving room for artistic imagination. Typical...
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2015 Fireworks Festivals in Tokyo, Japan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3NtmqvMZIQ
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The Festival of Naked Men in Japan (Hada...

Every year in February, thousands of Japanese men go out into the street to celebrate the Festival of Naked Men (Hadaka Matsuri). According to the Japanese by taking part in the festival, the whole year will be full of success. The festival has been celebrated since 767 in different towns, but it is gorgeously celebrated in the Town of Inajava, where the number of participants reaches 3000. They are dressed only in loincloths (called fundoshi) and wooden sandals. In the ceremony, there participate only men at the age of 23-43, who nakedly go out into the street in the...
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8 Fantastic Japanese Discoveries, Which ...

Japan has all the rights to be considered a leading country in the sphere of technique and electronics. During the last years more and more often we hear about silly, funny and absolutely incomprehensible discoveries of the Japanese engineers. And it is so, because the world market is full of the discoveries of the quick-witted inhabitants of the country of the rising: discoveries, which are mostly senseless and non-practical. Anyway, most of them are real masterpieces. However, our the reference is about the Japanese masterpieces, which one day will probably change our...
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The Actors of the Theatre in Japan are the Robots

The Actors of the Theatre in Japan are t...

08 October 2013 The new staff of the actors was accepted by the foreign audience ambiguously The Japanese have staged “Three Sisters” by Anton Chekhov. The new actors don’t need rehearsals, they are just programmed. The main hero needs only electricity because he is a robot.  In the “Three Sisters” the Japanese android embodies the youngest sister – Irina. The actions, however, have been transferred to the Japan of 2030-ies. The roles of maids are also performed by the robots. But the Japanese “Three Sisters” isn’t accepted in all countries. the material...
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The Museum of the City of Kyoto Keeps a ...

It is a feminine silver jewelry of unique beauty from the Kingdom of Van.  On  the  jewel  there  are  depicted  fabulous creatures, trees and gods, which ancient Armenians worshiped. This beauty is made approximately in the 8-7-th centuries B. C. It is kept in the museum of the city of Kyoto in Japan. And nowadays, after so many centuries, in fact it can embellish the collection of every woman.       the  material is taken from   https://vk.com/mer_hayreniq_hayastan translated from Armenian into English by...
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Little Japanese kids play Armenian Aram ...

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Kabuki

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...
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Japanese Choir Sings Ode to Armenia

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...
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Japanese culture

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...
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Interesting facts about Japanese Language

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....