Text is always a minor element in a motion picture (unless it is a subtitled foreign film) and text usually whizzes by subliminally while viewing a film. By Coding the work for [text], all the text nuances made by the film makers come to light. While I have viewed Muriel’s Wedding ...
We defined a preference index as the probability of each element of the bigram to be chosen first by individual monkeys and used this index as a measure to quantify the consolidation level of the statistical learning. Second, spelling has semanticity whereby writing units serve as symbols ...
One element in that identity was the imperial cult derived from Shinto. But as a religion, Shinto was no match for Buddhism. The Japanese were aware that Buddhism was foreign, but it was no more so than Confucianism and all the rest of the Tang culture that had helped reshape the ...
resulting in the separation of day and night (Amaterasu= sun, light; Tsukuyomi = moon, dark). Tsukuyomi is considered a tutelary of agriculture because of his involvement in the death of the food deity Ukemochi and and because of the close link between the moon and the harvest in the luna...
Japanese is written in three scripts, called kanji, hiragana, and katakana. Kanji are symbols representing a word, such as a verb, a noun, or the root of an adjective. Hiragana is used for new foreign language words, and katakana represent syllables. ...
59 Another element among the factors that allowed this expansion of status is the incorporation of mañju’srii into tantric ritual in china. it was, notably, a dhaara.nii that mañju’srii requested buddhapaalita to bring back from india when he visited wu-t’ai shan in 676ce....
will-o’-the-wisps; fox fire (Kitsune-bi), tanuki fire (Tanubi-bi), perhaps due to their eyes shining in dark SOURCES: Numerous Chinese and Japanese documents (see Resources), extant Japanese artwork (as appearing within this story), and English resources such as De Visser (1908) // Vi...
(Chua-Eoan/Larimer 1999: 86)As for today, collecting living insects still is a nostalgically beloved activity of kids in their summer holidays, also being used as a narrative element in anime, television drama or games such as the My Summer Holiday series (Millennium Kitchen, since 2000). ...
Another term specific to Japanese whisky is world whisky, which is used by distillers in Japan to describe their spirits that don’t fit the qualifications of Japanese whisky—ones that have been made or aged elsewhere, have low ABV, or any other disqualifying element. Age Statements Many ...
The parallels between Greece, India, and China, not to mention countless other cultures, certainly explode a favored feminist thesis (with an element of anti-Semitism) that "patriarchy" was something created by Judaism and Christianity (cf. The Creation of Patriarchy, Gerda Lerner, Oxford, 1986)...