Posts Tagged Japan
Dancing With Spirits: the Festivals & Folklore of Japan
Nowhere are religious traditions more uniquely tied to the historical, cultural and spiritual identity of a people then in Japan. Almost all Japanese follow one intertwined religious mixture of Shinto, Matsuri and Buddhism. This forms the basis of much of their culture. To know this is to know Japan. Dancing with Spirits is an intellectual but accessible ‘travel guide’ through the history and fun reality of the most important Shinto, Matsuri and Buddhist festivals of Japan. It features entertaining first-hand accounts of wild revels like Tanabata and Setsubun, but it also offers something more; the history of the these festivals and explanations of the symbolism and meaning behind them, things that even many of the Japanese revelers themselves often don’t know. Other aspects of Buddhism, Matsuri and Shinto are covered within these pages as well, from a succinct history of the origins of these great traditions in Japan to chapters about specific deities and Amulets. Come and leap into the amazing world of Shinto, Matsuri and Buddhism and the ‘floating world’ of Japanese rituals and folklore as it is being celebrated today! Dozo!
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Dancing Into Darkness: Butoh, Zen, and Japan
The pieces of Dancing Into Darkness cross boundaries, just as butoh anticipates a growing global amalgamation. “Butoh is not an aesthetic movement grafted onto Western dance, ” Fraleigh concludes, “and Western dance may be more Eastern than we have been able to see. “
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