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Japanese Culture

The word culture indicates the system of the custom and the behavior that the one (high culture) with the high achievement level that man like the art and study, etc. invented is indicated, and man's society has formed over many years. In the meaning of the latter, the category is very wide from the custom, public entertainments, morality, and the religion related to the daily life whole of clothes, food, and the living, etc. to the social structure like politics and economy, etc.Is not the one that the culture of Japan is simply made the lamplight and to bundle, too but various elements contained, and it Kon from ancient times since neighboring countries in Asia in which it centered on China and the Meiji era in the Middle Ages?Various hands are added receiving the influence from Europe and America, and repeating absorption and the choice in modern days and peculiar development is accomplished. There is respect where an extremely Japanese consistent element and tendency to do can be pointed out in that, too, (The example: Do not change in the point that indoors takes off shoes even if the dwelling changes from a Japanese style room into the Western-style room and goes up) though the traditional culture of Japan is assumed the base while taking Shintoism and other religions, and has changed in the age. even in case of the superficial, large change Harmony (..boiling..)" The word ..".. is often used as a concept of showing the Japanese culture in the feature. "Harmony" compares with things from the foreign country such as [**] (China) and Hiroshi (Western Europe) in the word that shows Japan from of old and is used. Moreover, word "Japan (Yamato)" might be used (The example: classical Japanese, true Japanese spirit, Japanese pink, and Japanese picture, etc.). It is an old word (In this case, it was written, "Yamato" ..old..) that showed the entire Japan at the same time though "Japan" pointed originally at the Nara area. The event thought to be invariable in this country from ancient times is shown and it calls.

There is a religious culture based on polytheism (eight million gods) that it is natural worship, and is the spirits of the dead worship to Japan from of old like the shamanism and animism "Shintoism", etc.As for the start, it is the one near the [mirareru] [**suwa] belief genesis religion, and the old form is left for the belief of Okinawa, and the Ainu culture is also similar in old Shintoism and [kami**]. The shrine maiden culture , for example, Utah in Okinawa is a main stream of Shintoism, is seen ..Ainu culture.. remarkably, and said that it connected with "Woman manager culture" to be said with a Japanese peculiarity in the social structure of the female subject afterwards the shrine maiden culture old. The many children, and moreover, "God" and the reverence were put, and it came to call "Woman manager" wife having the child, the assumption of the belief and the relation woman, and "[Kami] (on)" calling the mistress, and. However, there is an original feature in which Shintoism is not seen in the polytheism of another country. For instance, idea (Concretely, the expression such as the requiem service for broken needles, the tool tomb, [itamashii], and breath etc. can be perceived. The idea assumed to be a stay of the life in the tool including the needle is assumed in an original Buddhism, not to be though there are a lot of temples in which it holds a service of the needle) that the life stays even in the tool, the word, and the sigh. It is an idea (for instance, [furutsuka]) that even the enemy who has invaded also enshrines it etc.There is strongly an idea of Zhu Xi study that develops from Confucism in a Chinese civilization, too and it is an opposite in Japan , saying that "The whip is not sent to the dead even if it is an enemy, and the grudge is thrown into water" though "The enemy can strike the whip even by the dead, and carve the stone the grudge" etc. are assumed. Moreover, "Buddhism and esoteric Buddhism" (There are a lot of opinions in the science of religion of which another religion the Buddhism and is esoteric Buddhism, too) that far assumes India to be an origin is accepted from the continent, and an original Buddhism and the esoteric Buddhism culture are established. A lot of things to assume the Buddhism of various traditions and customs to be an origin are seen, and the belief of Japan has been formed while influencing it Shintoism and between each other. The influence is neither two Koreas nor China though "Confucism" (Confucism also is a philosophy, thought, and has the opinion assumed that it is not a religion) and "Taoism" are received as well as other east Asian nations. Having received Confucism directly influences the people in Japan in indirect shape though stays in the tradesman who chiefly governed the samurai and the Sinology. The Confucian loyalty and filial piety thought was taken to Imperial Rescript on Education etc. by the influence of the Sinology person conservative the court though the Zhu Xi study as the samurai's study lost the standpoint by Meiji Restoration. It was changeable to the Japanese original one though the taoism reaches new heights of prosperity more than the one by the positive and negative five lines and fortune-tellings, etc. at the Heian era at the Nara era, becomes customs with the Onmyoji's gaining power now the thought, and has been succeeded as well as Confucism. Concrete illustration..vegetables and omelette like fried egg on top..color..five-colored..color..positive and negative..based on.It is said that martial arts became the arts with the open eye spirit and the philosophy by training Shintoism becomes basic, Confucism, the taoism, and Zen sect, etc. are added to it, too. The pantheon of the Hinduism origin exists in the Buddhism and Shintoism of Japan and there are cultural effects because it has a large influence on the Buddhism and esoteric Buddhism though Hinduism is not spread to Japan. Sense of values based on such a religion influences it in customs and manners and the culture of Japan, and the root deeply sits, and influences various scenes such as the Seven-Five-Three Festival at the festival, the traditional Japanese theater, martial arts, agriculture, forestry, the fishing industry, construction, engineering works, and the New Year. Japan became modern, was separated again by the Meiji era new government, was assumed Shintoism to be a state Shintoism, and became the means of combining with the militarism national hegemony though coexisted and had mixed it in shape that ..length.. syncretization of Shinto with Buddhism of [raku] Shintoism and the Buddhism (gods and Buddha mixture). The religious position of Shintoism vagueness (The government explained the obligation of [uyamakami] to the people as "Shintoism was not a religion" (non-religion theory of the Shinto shrine)) in the age of the state Shintoism was separated, and will have arrived at Shinto shrine Shintoism in postwar days soon officially with politics as a religion. The spirit of Japan that became foundation even if it was not a realization of pure religious values Shintoism from old, included Buddhism, esoteric Buddhism, Confucism, taoism or "Christianity" (Old is [kirishitan] culture) on that, and was while making various outpatients' religions exist together today and the soil of the culture were formed. There is a side that it is not possible to talk about the culture of Japan and the essence of the spirit by pulling out the religion mainly composed of Shintoism. It might be said that such Japanese religious values are effective, confronts environmental preservation the idea of "Mountain culture of the hometown (grove of a village shrine)" for instance in various problems that the world of the present has when this is seen as a methodology, and the tradition of "Soybean culture (The saving and the brewing are divine services)" also has the possibility of suggesting the settlement of the issue for the food crisis. In the bow, etiquette, and the table-manners, etc. in sports or daily life of the traditional Japanese theater and the tradition it characterizes, the point of esteem of "Type (shape)" is enumerated, and it has been assumed that it is seen widely with the merit of Japan. The attention of the respect and consideration to the other party is often put from the mind of avoiding colliding with these with the influence and the person of the Confucianism morality and respecting harmony in silence. It is replaced by "Etiquette" and "Manners", etc. by changing the lifestyle to Europe and America in recent years, and there is a voice to worry about making of a traditional normative consciousness of these Japan a ruin, too.