Japanese warriors called samurai warriors often wore colors that reflected who their leaders were. The samurai wives would wear the colors and fabrics that represented the status of their husbands as well as the leaders. Extremely bold colors and patterns were considered inappropriate for adults, but...
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Japanese holdouts (Japanese: 残留日本兵, romanized: Zanryū nipponhei, lit. 'remaining Japanese soldiers') were soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial
The first level of black belt in Japanese is called shodan. It literally means "first level" or "beginning step". Sho (first) is an ideograph that is comprised of two radicals meaning "cloth" and "knife". To make a piece of clothing, one first cuts out the pattern on the cloth. The...
providing defense against long range weapons, such as arrows and darts, as well as protection from close range weapons like swords, the iron folding fan is the subject of many samurai legends. In Japanese, this weapon is called atessen, and the art of fighting with these fans is calledtes...
Japanese Martial Arts — Koryu By Jeff Broderick. Koryu are the old martial arts of Japan. The term is composed of two kanji characters, 古 ko meaning “old” and 流 ryu which literally means “stream” or “flow” but here indicates a tradition or lineage – a body of knowledge...
Kendo is the modern Japanese martial art of fencing based on the two-handed sword (katana) techniques of the samurai warriors.
However, today’s Japanese art scene should not be limited to that, nor to manga or anime. For example, have you ever heard of Gutai art (“concrete art”), the founding movement of Japanese contemporary art? For example, Shozo Shimamoto leaves his works to chance. This notion inspired ot...
JRPGs feature a more charismatic protagonist that you can't customize much, if at all. The pacing is also much more streamlined: instead of an open world where you can tackle quests as you see fit, Japanese RPGs are often linear.