Articles of category "Japanese culture"

For many centuries singing and dancing were the only entertainment at Japanese parties, celebrations and festivals. Hence, many traditional Japanese dances are still popular in Japan along with modern Western style forms and a ballet. Numerous Western schools in Japan cover a classical ballet, avant-garde styles, a jazz-dance and a modern dance, while during the festivals, people dance their national Bon dance or So-ran Bushi.

It takes time to understand Japanese art. Whether you admire Japanese ikebana or listen to Japanese music, they can appear either strange or too much intricate until you know what each aspect of this particular art reflects. Although Japan is considered to assimilate many foreign cultures, their own arts bear neither resemblance nor imitation of the origins, since these cultures have acquired new forms and ideas in the Japanese rearrangement.