Japanese culture
Land of anime
Japanese culture encompasses the traditions, arts, social customs, and values originating in Japan.
This includes aesthetic principles like *wabi-sabi* (finding beauty in imperfection), social concepts like group harmony and respect for hierarchy, and cultural exports from tea ceremony and kabuki theater to anime and video games.
She studied Japanese culture before her trip to Kyoto.
The phrase often appears in discussions contrasting Eastern and Western approaches to everything from food to work ethic.
- tea ceremonyRitualized beverage preparation
- green teaUnoxidized Camellia sinensis infusion
- animeJapanese cartoon art form
- ikebanaJapanese arrangement of blooms
- mangaJapanese comic medium
Zen Buddhism · pagodas · paper lantern · sushi · fish market · sake · hot spring · samurai sword · noh theater · bowing · Shinto shrines · origami · ukiyo-e · shoji screens · sliding door · kintsugi · kabuki · bento boxes
- East AsiaChina, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Korea
- JapanTokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Mount Fuji, Hokkaido
- culturesMediterranean cultures, subculture, multicultural, counterculture, underground
- island cultureseafaring, aloha, island cuisine, surfing, outrigger canoe
- CJK LanguagesChinese, Korean, Mandarin, Cantonese, hanzi
- Tang Chinacourt music, court dance, imperial exam, civil service exams, pagodas
Japanese cultureAmerican culture
USA's collective way of life
Western culture · American individualism · rugged individualism · European culture · British culture
Japanese cultureChinese culture
Customs of China
Korean culture · Indian culture · Filipino culture · Thai culture · Polynesian culture
Japanese cultureanarchism
Philosophy rejecting state authority
counterculture · bohemianism · nonconformism · chaos · disorder