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Japanese are awakening to its own cultural history

Sep 14, 2006 22:18 pm / 1 comment

Cer­tain ratio of pop­u­la­tion dur­ing any time of the his­tory always fit the cat­e­gory of those who are awak­en­ing to its own cul­tural his­tory. How­ever, some­times, there is surge of such awak­en­ing, and it seem at least the mass media in Japan are now pick­ing up the topic of this awakening.

Busi­ness facil­ity and realestate mag­a­zines and web sites talk about places that express Japan­ese cul­ture. At art muse­ums who used to show very lit­tel inter­est in arts of Edo era such as Rimpa, many are fea­tur­ing Edo art, and major mag­a­zines and web sites are full of praise for them.

I wasn’t really think­ing about this trend when I rented my office recently in Kagu­razaka area. I just knew I wanted my office in a loca­tion where it has unique Japan­ese his­tory, and a view that has Japan­ese fla­vor. Only after I rented the office, I became aware of the gen­eral trend about Japan­ese awak­en­ing to its own cul­tural history.

 

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1. Suda said on Sep 27, 2006 23:26 pm:

I’m mak­ing it sound as though I really dis­cov­ered this, but in real­ity, there has been numer­ous books out about Japan­ese awak­en­ing to it’s old cul­ture. One Eng­lish book about new Japan­ese archi­tec­ture with fla­vor of old cul­ture was printed on the year 2000.


 

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