JAPAN CULTURE

JAPAN HAS EVOLVED OVER THE MILLENIA. JAMANO PERIOD TO ITS CONTEMPORARY  HYBRID CULTURE THAT COMBINES INFLUENCES FROM ASIA, AND NORTH AMERICA.  JAPAN EXPERIENCES A LONG PERIOD OF ISOLATION. FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD. UNTIL MEIJI PERIOD (1860'S).

FOLLOWING THE ICE AGE OF 12,000 B.C.  A RICH ECOSYSTEM OF THE ARCHIPELEGROW FOSTERED HUMAN DEVELOPMENT.  EARLY POETRY WAS WRITTEN IN THE JOMON PERIOD.

THEIR FIRST CAPITAL WAS AT NARA IN 1870 AND BECAME  A CENTER  OF BUDDIST ART, RELIGION AND CULTURE.   THE MEJU PERIOD BEGAN THE NEW NATIONAL LEADERSHIP SYSTEMATICALLY ENDED FEUDALISM.

DEMOCRACY WAS  PROBLEMATIC BECAUSE JAPAN'S POWERFUL MILITARY WAS SEMI INDEPENDANT AND  OVERRULED IN A WAR WITH CHINA IN1931 AND THEY HAD MILITARY FIGHT IN CHINA.  IN 1945 TWO BOMBS AND A RUSSIANINVASIONINVASION FORCED THE SURRENDER .

THE JAPANESE PALEOLITHIC AGE COVERED A LENGTHY PERIOD AS EARLY AS 50,000 B.C. AND ENDING AROUND 12,000 B.C.  SOMETHING OF THE OLDEST OLDEST ARTIFACTS DATE TO JAPAN MANUFACTURE.  JAPAN MUSIC IS A WIDE ARRAY OF PERFORMERS IN DISTANCT  STYLES.  THE MUSIC IN JAPAN IS KANJI.  JAPAN IS THE SECOND LARGESTPERFORMERS IN DISTINCT STYLES.  THE MUSIC IS A WIDE ARRAY OF PERFORMERS IN DISTINCT STLYES,  THE MUSIC IN JAPAN IS KANJI.  JAPAN IS THE LARGEST MUSIC MARKET.  IT IS DOMINATED BY JAPANESE ARTISTS.

LOCAL MUSIC APPEARS AT KAROAK.  IT IS BASED ON HUMAN BREATHING PAINTING HAS BEEN AN ART OR JAPANESE FOR A LONG FOR A LONG TIME.  CHINESE  INTRODUCED PAPER MAKING TO JAPANESE AROUND THE 7TH CENTURY BY SOME MONKS.  JAPANESE PAINTING TECHNIQUES ARE IN USE TODAY SOME ARE FROM ASIA,  THEY USE CALLIGRAPHAPY AS A FORM OF ART .  IT CAN BE 100 ATTEMPTS TO PRODUCE THE DESIRED EFFECTS OF A SINGLE CHARACTER.  THE STYLE AQND FORMAT OF THE WRITING CAN MIMIC SUBJECT MATTER,  IT CAN TAKE OVER 100 ATTEMPTS TO PRODUCE THE DESIRED AFFECT OF THE PROCESS.  CALLIGRAOHY IS KNOWN AS A WAY OF CREATING THE WORK OF  SHADO-LEARNING TOWRITE CHARACATURES.

JAPANESE SCULPTURES AND WOOD PRINTS ARE COMMON AND CONSIST OF BUDDIST IMAGES AND TEMPLES.  WOOD IS THE MAIN MATERIAL IN JAPAN SOME ARE LACQUERED AND SOME ARE BRONZED.  SOME OF THE THEIR WORK CAN MIMIC THE SUBJECT MATTER TO THE POINT TEXTURE.  IT CAN TAKE OVER 100 ATTEMPTS TO PRODUCE ITS DESIRED EFFECT OF A SINGLE CHARACTER BUT THE PROCESS  OF CREATING THE WORK IS CONSIDERED AS MUCH AS THE END.  OTHER MATERIALS HAVE HAD EXTREMELY IMPORTANT ROLES IN BELIEFS.  UKIYOE MEANS PICTURES OF THE FLOATING WORLD.  IT IS A GENRE OF WOOD BLOCK PRINTS THAT EXEMPLIFYTHE CHARACTERISTIC OF JAPAN'S ART.  THEY HAVE MASKS, COSTUMES AND GESTURES WITH PAINTED FACES.

THEIR CLOTHING IS DISTINGUISHED  AS A KIMONO.  IT MEANS SOMETHING ONE WEARS.  THEY ARE TRADITIONAL ONE WEARS.  THEY ARE TRADITIONAL THEY ARE TRADITIONAL TO JAPAN.  BOTH MEN AND WOMEN AND CHILDREN WEAR KIMONOS.  ARE MARRIED WOMEN WEAR KIMONOS.  A MARRIED WOMAN WEARS KIMONOS.  A MARRIED WOMAN WEARS  DIFFERENT KIMONO STYLE AND COLOR.  THEY WEAR HEAVIER MATERIAL IN THE WINTER ANOBI SASH AND IT IS AN ELABORATE PART OF THE KIMONOS WHO ARE TIED TYPICALLY IN SEVERAL LAYERS DEPENDING UPON THE SEASON. 

THEY MAKE REFINED SANDALS  OUT OF WOODEN BLOCKS AND ARE ATTACHED TO THE FEET BY CLOTH.  THE JAPANESE FOOD IS VERY REFINED.  SUSHI TEPURA AND TERRIYAKIARE SOME OF THE FOODS KNOWN  THEY EAT REFINED RICE LEAN SEAFOOD AND BOILED VEGETABLES. THEIR HEALTHY DIET IS BELIEVED TO BE RELATED TO THEIR LONGEVITY.  THEIR MAIN SPORT IS SAMURAI TRAINING AND MARTIAL ARTS.  THEIR WAS RAPID SOCIAL CHANGE.