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  2. Japanese aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    With its emphasis on the wholeness of nature and character in ethics, and its celebration of the landscape, it sets the tone for Japanese aesthetics. Until the thirteenth century, Shinto remained the main influence on Japanese aesthetics. [4] In the Buddhist tradition, all things are considered as either evolving from or dissolving into ...

  3. Women in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Women and public life in early Meiji Japan: The development of the feminist movement (U of Michigan Press, 2020). ASIN 192928067X; Robins-Mowry, Dorothy. The hidden sun: Women of modern Japan (Westview Press, 1983) ASIN 0865314217; Sato, Barbara. The New Japanese Woman: Modernity, Media, and Women in Interwar Japan (Duke UP, 2003). ASIN 0822330083

  4. List of Intangible Cultural Heritage elements in Japan

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    Yama, Hoko, Yatai, float festivals in Japan 2016 01059: Thirty-three float festivals around Japan held annually to pray to the gods for peace and protection from natural disasters. Raiho-shin, ritual visits of deities in masks and costumes 2018 01271

  5. List of Special Places of Scenic Beauty, Special Historic ...

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    Well-known animals peculiar to Japan and their habitat; Animals which are not peculiar to Japan, but need to be preserved as well-known characteristic Japanese animals, and their habitat; Animals or animal groups peculiar to Japan within their natural environment; Domestic animals peculiar to Japan

  6. Wabi-sabi - Wikipedia

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    New kilns gave potters new colors, forms, and textures, allowing them to create pieces that were very unique and nonuniform. These potters used a specific kind of firing which was thought to produce the best ceramics due to the part played by nature and the organic ash glazes , a clear embodiment of wabi-sabi.

  7. Culture of Japan - Wikipedia

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    The Three Views of Japan (日本三景, Nihon Sankei) is the canonical list of Japan's three most celebrated scenic sights, attributed to 1643 scholar Hayashi Gahō. [81] These are the pine-clad islands of Matsushima in Miyagi Prefecture , the pine-clad sandbar of Amanohashidate in Kyoto Prefecture , and Itsukushima Shrine in Hiroshima Prefecture .

  8. List of inventions and discoveries by women - Wikipedia

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    Transposons make up a large fraction of the DNA in eukaryotic cells (44% if the human genome [85] and 90% of the maize genome [86] [87]) and play an important role in genome function and evolution. [88] In Oxytricha, which has a unique genetic system, these elements play a critical role in development. [89] Nerve growth factor

  9. Category:Women in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Women in Japan" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...