Essays on Japanese Culture

The area of ritual and state in modern Japanese religious history is a very rich one. Research on the symbolism of state rites has been a topic of enduring interest, as have functionalist studies of the significance of state rites, especially Shinto ritual, in the...

Prior to the 17th century, Japan had to go through a battle that decided the fate of its country for the next two centuries. And that was a major event in the history of Japan. This battle named the Battle of Sekigahara took place due...

In the late eighteenth century, Japan was encountering numerous new works of art and scholarly advancements. Japan was continuously modernizing from their isolated primitive society into its contemporary structure now. Starting from Tokyo, numerous new intellectual advances originated from learning the western sciences and technologies....

In the decades since women’s history became an acknowledged field on a global scale, scholars and authors have produced essays, biographies, and translations that consider the subject of women in early modern Japan. Japanese culture has historically emphasized gender roles, and the position of women...

Japanese art is very rich and includes many styles of art and media such as pottery, ink painting and calligraphy on scrolls and silk, sculpture, ceramics, woodblock prints, and ukiyo-e, which means “pictures of the floating world”, modern manga comics and anime cartoons, and many...

Watching anime is something that I truly cherish. While some may view it in disdain, simplifying it as only “Japanese cartoons”, I believe that the medium is a completely unique experience, unable to be replicated by any other live action film or TV show. My...

In today’s society, social status can be interpreted by the income you earn that translates to the materialistic items that represents your status. In the Heian period, a large majority of the people, specifically women, are not in the same social status as women in...

The rise of Japanese anime culture and its impact on social life are tremendous. Comics are based on people’s imagination, which does not cost any capital, does not produce waste, and is not affected by the environment. Moreover, it qualified the growing cultural needs of...

New art form ‘Anime’. There are a lot of myths and delusions around this genre, but where is the truth, and where is the lie? And can we call ‘Anime’ a new art? For this, the history of the emergence of the Anime genre has...

“Culture encompasses religion, food, what we wear, how we wear it, our language, marriage, music, what we believe is right or wrong”. It means culture is all around in daily life. Therefore, the essay below, will mentioned about the similarities in food and etiquette aspect...