The National Gallery’s Curator of Australian Prints and Drawings, Dr Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax hopes that Geelong and Victorian audiences will add the names Spowers and Syme to their knowledge of ground-breaking women artists from the era including Margaret Preston, Thea Proctor, Dorrit Black and G...
Japanese names for boys and girls with the meaning “bright and clear” can be given to both boys and girls. In Japan, on the other hand, the name is more typically associated with infant males. 6. Akiro Akiro is a pretty amazing Japanese baby boy name that means “bright boy.” ...
My three year-old daughter has internalized this "death in the forest" theme, and it's pretty funny. If we tell her to sit down and eat her natto, she might show a difficult face and say, "No, I'm going to the forest." Or if her knucklehead of a brother won't hand over his...
The last third of the novel, describing the world after Genji’s death, is much darker in tone, and the principal figures, though still impressive, seem no more than fragmentations of the peerless Genji. The success of Genji monogatari was immediate. The author of the touching Sarashina ...
Commentating on the purpose of life and the acceptance of death,Ikiruisa must-see existentialist moviethat explores themes that everyone will find relatable. The film is also Kurosawa's examination of what he considered to be a period where Japanese family life was falling apart. ...
His exact dates of birth and death, as well as his birthplace, remain unknown, but he learned pottery from Otagaki Rengetsu and ghostwrote for her during her lifetime. But after her death, from around 1878, he primarily produced shrine offering bowls and so on, naming himself Rengetsu II...
The amplitude of the chōka permitted the poets to treat themes impossible within the compass of the tanka—whether the death of a wife or child, the glory of the imperial family, the discovery of a gold mine in a remote province, or the hardships of military service. The greatest of ...
Death by Hanging 5. Death By Hanging Imamura Shôhei’s Ningen jôhatsu (A Man Vanishes) was released in June 1967. Although difficult to classify as a ATG production as it was planned completely by the director and then shown at Nikkatsu-run theaters after only a short run at ATG, th...
Tattoo Meaning:Death, Life, Reverence for Dead/Ancestors, Change Although the image of the human skull in much of tattoo culture and art generally has come to possess a contrary connotation (such as death, danger, and an ill fate), the skull utilized in Japanese tattoos was meant to be a...
This is a name that you can find in Japanese mythology. Izanami was both the goddess of creation and death. Its meaning in Japanese is “she who invites.” This could be a great name choice if you have an interest in mythology.