All of the prints are of females: courtesans, geisha, escorts — there are many words to describe young women of high status who were professional mistresses. The position was dangerous and tenuous, but the social structure of Edo Japan was very different to modern society and for those in ...
Geisha, a member of a professional class of women in Japan whose traditional occupation is to entertain men, in modern times, particularly at businessmen’s parties in restaurants or teahouses. The Japanese word geisha literally means “art person,” and
It is the tendency for much of the music to be word-oriented, either through actual sung text or through pictorial titles of instrumental pieces. With the exception of variation pieces (danmono) for the Japanese koto, one can seldom find a purely instrumental piece in the spirit of, for ...
266). From 1941, the mobilization of women became mandatory and the Japanese media multiplied their representations of female labour. As a consequence, Atsugi worked on various documentaries that positively portrayed the effort of women during the war, such as This Is How Hard We Are Working (...
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The present study offers new ways of understanding his personality and work by highlighting relations with other writers, his interest in urban life, his views on the nation, women, and cosmopolitanism, his history writing, and his ... M Shkandrij - 《University of Toronto Quarterly》 被引量...
data accumulate suggesting that discourse is shot through by numerous atfect-carrying devices such as word order, verb voice, pronominal reference.mood, tense/ aspect,and case/number/ gender/ animacy marking. (Ochs and Schieffelin 1989; Besnier 1990for an extensivereview).On the other hand, ...
In Chinese, the causative form consti- tutes an independent "word". In our previous studies on Super-Function Based Machine Translation (SFBMT), we have found that causative sentences are very frequently used and difficult to translate correctly, the over use of causative sentences can be ...
It cannot be selected for children aged 1 year or younger as its safety has not yet been established for this age group. Its application should also be avoided in lactating women. a) Volume A volume of 0.1 g (corresponding to a volume squeezed by 1 cm from a 5-g tube commercially ...
The young women assessed skin colour as fairer than the imagined average among both females and males, even though the traditional Japanese view holds that fair skin belonged exclusively to females. A cluster analysis done by us identified some patterns in the students' word choices for skin ...