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The videos on the Rachel and Jun and Rachel & Jun's Adventures! channels consist of vlogs on various topics related to Japanese culture and society, personal experiences and daily life, and also interactions with other Japan-related vloggers.
Tsuru no Ongaeshi (鶴の恩返し, lit."Crane's Return of a Favor") is a story from Japanese folklore about a crane who returns a favor to a man. A variant of the story where a man marries the crane that returns the favor is known as Tsuru Nyōbō (鶴女房, "Crane Wife").
"Wedding." From the book Japan and Japanese (1902), p. 62. "Japanese at home." From the book Japan and Japanese (1902), p. 71. They are celebrating Girl's Day. In pre-modern Japan, marriage was inextricable from the ie (家, "family" or "household"), the basic unit of society with a collective continuity independent of any individual life.
Kasa Jizō (笠地蔵) is a Japanese folk tale about an old couple whose generosity is rewarded by Jizō, the Japanese name for the bodhisattva Kṣitigarbha.The story is commonly handed down by parents to their children in order to instill moral values, as it is grounded in Buddhist thought.
The production of the film started in April 2007. This is the first time Aparna Sen has made a film based on someone else's story. This movie is based on the title story of The Japanese Wife and Other Stories by Bengali Indian author Kunal Basu, who writes from Oxford and is an engineer by training.
Hachikazuki or Hachi Katsugi (Japanese: 鉢かづき; English: "The bowl-bearer princess") [1] [2] is a Japanese folktale of the Otogi-zōshi genre. It refers to a maiden of noble birth who wears a bowl on her head and marries a prince. [3] Hachikazuki hime was first written in the Muromachi period (14th-16th centuries). [1]
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Geisha were forbidden to sell sex but have mistakenly become a symbol of Japanese sexuality in the West because prostitutes in Japan marketed themselves as "geisha girls" to American military men. A frequent focus of misconceptions in regard to Japanese sexuality is the institution of the geisha. Rather than a prostitute, a geisha was a woman ...