Japan
The zodiac symbol of the zodiac, the deification of labor and the Japanese miracle!
The Geishas By this name, which means "dancer", women who have the pleasure of having the "tea houses" or the most important guests are in Japan. "Geisha" is studying at the age of 10 with a teacher who will make her not only a beautiful and charming woman but also a pleasantly smart, sophisticated, excellent musician, perfect performer of "chick" and "shamisen" and classical dancer. In a nutshell, "geisha" represents the ideal of the cultivated woman in fine ways and charm that every man would like to have companionship. "Geisha" is a precious and unnatural fruit: it is cut off from real life when it is still a little girl and since then she is only dealing with herself. Her discussion is always attentive and sometimes elegantly endowed, it is not on specific issues, but she stands in sophisticated causeries that were fashionable in the 18th century French and unfolds with poetic frescoes always guided by good taste and brilliant answers. When she does not offer her work, "geisha" generally lives in a kind of college boarding school. Quality "geisha" when deciding to leave the profession usually marries a person of good and sometimes high social status. The good "Geisha" wins not only a few: its art is paid bravely with the hours, and if only one part goes to the woman, the rest goes to the manager, the amount is big. The fee is commensurate with its reputation and ability. The main reason for the existence of "gays" must be sought in the woman's past social position. The actual "geishas" are few, "geishas" "quality too few. Naturally, we do not have to confuse "geisha" with "geisha-garu". The latter is something between a playwright and a girl for entertainment, knows how to serve wine, dancing and responding intelligently to customers. "Garu" means cheap. Harakiri A typical phenomenon of social life in Japan, the "character" has often been distorted by frivolous research. In this, one can recognize the concept of Confucian honesty to the utmost, the elimination of the "ego" for the sake of a wider social relationship and the insignificance of life and death. In "social" suicide the motivation is the defense of honor, solidarity with a person we believe in. Another example closest to us was the suicide of General Nogi, the Russian winner in the 1904 war and his wife. Next to the white-kimono corpses worn in similar circumstances was found a short poem written at the last minute saying: "Abandoning my life, my ruler ascended to the Gods. With the heart full of gratitude I wish to follow him. " The kamikazi The word "kamikazi" means "divine wind". This was how the Japanese Suicide Pilots were named, during the Second World War, in their ultimate effort to save their homeland from defeat, dropping their planes with explosives on the enemy's military targets. In this phenomenon, all the elements of the Japanese religious spirit are inherent: the ancient Shiaoist notion of natural energy, faith in the unity of the group, the divinity that surrounds the concept of "homeland," the philosophical view of the world according to the zen doctrine, according to which the personal fate of the individual is treated with peace and apathy. The ideology that inspired the kamikaze is the same ideology from which the most ardent creations of the Japanese spirit sprang. It would be very simple to treat kamikazi simply as "crazy" or as a victim of a group psychosis. They should probably see them as the products of an ideology cultivated deliberately, in the hope that it would bring some positive result. The military Japanese circles were believed at the time, that the massive use of "suicide weapons" would compensate for the overwhelming American supremacy of war material and military forces. In fact, the action of kamikazi caused huge losses to the allies, but it also resulted in the annihilation of the Japanese air force, which secured the superiority of the west in the air. |
The Ikebana
This Japanese term is used to identify a kind of art that is born of worship for the arrangement of flowers, branches, leaves, the medium that gives Japanese the opportunity to express aesthetically its deep love for nature through a perfect balance inequalities. "Ikebana" literally means "live flowers", where the term flower refers to everything that is mentioned in the plant world. The Japanese try to reproduce the cycle of the size of a plant: from budding to maturity, sometimes to the end. The varied use of plant material differentiates
interpretations by giving them a spiritual meaning.
The "ikbebana," which in Japan is a no-frivolous job - deals with priests, poets, philosophers, even military ones - is more of an art and is deeply connected to the philosophy of the people and the way of life. In the "ikbebana" the cosmic powers, which have their depiction in the two cosmogenic principles "yin" and "yang", meet. These determine the Universe and make possible the existence of life and things. In "ikinana", "yin" and "yang" have interesting applications and give meaning to the balance of inequalities, abolishing symmetry and thus avoiding monotony. The light and dark colors, the curves of the branches, to the right and left, the buds, are elements that want to emphasize the impression of the flower composition. The two main departments, in which the more than three hundred contemporary schools of "ikbebana" are subdivided, are: "typical", "rikka" and "natural", in which the "nageri" style belongs. The basic principles followed in the arrangement of flowers according to the "typical" style, whatever the form that the layman can take, and in any faculty, whether the creator of the composition is, is the absolute principle (Uranus) , the dependent authority (Earth) and the reconciliation authority (Man). The art of arranging flowers has a long history,
with roots in the 6th century and Buddhism. The oldest school is Ickenboom, which still exists today. The style created by this school is the "rick" used for decorating altars. With the rebirth of the confucian effect, the "ikbebana" is permeated by the principles of this doctrine, and the arrangement of flowers is adopted by the symbolic triad that we mentioned. In the Meiji season, the "moribana", the style with the coolest naturalism, which duplicates the old "typical" style, in the meantime the old "nageri" accepts changes
This Japanese term is used to identify a kind of art that is born of worship for the arrangement of flowers, branches, leaves, the medium that gives Japanese the opportunity to express aesthetically its deep love for nature through a perfect balance inequalities. "Ikebana" literally means "live flowers", where the term flower refers to everything that is mentioned in the plant world. The Japanese try to reproduce the cycle of the size of a plant: from budding to maturity, sometimes to the end. The varied use of plant material differentiates
interpretations by giving them a spiritual meaning.
The "ikbebana," which in Japan is a no-frivolous job - deals with priests, poets, philosophers, even military ones - is more of an art and is deeply connected to the philosophy of the people and the way of life. In the "ikbebana" the cosmic powers, which have their depiction in the two cosmogenic principles "yin" and "yang", meet. These determine the Universe and make possible the existence of life and things. In "ikinana", "yin" and "yang" have interesting applications and give meaning to the balance of inequalities, abolishing symmetry and thus avoiding monotony. The light and dark colors, the curves of the branches, to the right and left, the buds, are elements that want to emphasize the impression of the flower composition. The two main departments, in which the more than three hundred contemporary schools of "ikbebana" are subdivided, are: "typical", "rikka" and "natural", in which the "nageri" style belongs. The basic principles followed in the arrangement of flowers according to the "typical" style, whatever the form that the layman can take, and in any faculty, whether the creator of the composition is, is the absolute principle (Uranus) , the dependent authority (Earth) and the reconciliation authority (Man). The art of arranging flowers has a long history,
with roots in the 6th century and Buddhism. The oldest school is Ickenboom, which still exists today. The style created by this school is the "rick" used for decorating altars. With the rebirth of the confucian effect, the "ikbebana" is permeated by the principles of this doctrine, and the arrangement of flowers is adopted by the symbolic triad that we mentioned. In the Meiji season, the "moribana", the style with the coolest naturalism, which duplicates the old "typical" style, in the meantime the old "nageri" accepts changes