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Japanese Teachers at the Royal School of Commerce (1873-1923)
Only five years after the Royal Superior School of Commerce (the present Ca' Foscari University) was founded in 1868, the School introduced, for the first time in Italy, Japanese language courses taught by native speakers. The classes started in 1873 and continued until 1888, and were again part of the curriculum from 1909 to 1923. In those years a little number of very active Japanese teachers (interprets, linguists, sculptors and painters) contributed to shaping the education in Japanese of Italian students, who in turn went on to direct Japanese instruction in Italy. Their guiding spirit was Guglielmo Berchet, a tireless promoter of Italo-Japanese relations
Gambling with the nation : heroines of the Japanese yakuza film, 1955ā1975
A revamped period-drama film genre surfaced after the Allied occupation of Japan (1945ā1952), featuring androgynous comic heroines who cross-dressed to perform male and female yakuza roles. By the late 1960s, they had been replaced by increasingly sexualized figures, and later by the āpinkā violence of the āgirl bossā sub-genre. Yet masculine themes in the ānihilisticā yakuza films of the late 1960s and 1970s have been the focus of most scholarship on the genre, with scant attention paid to the female yakuza film. This article offers an iconographic reading of the heroines of the yakuza genre, arguing that the re-imagining of a postwar āJapanesenessā was conducted as much through the yakuza genreās heroines as its heroes. Through analysis of key visual motifs, narrative tropes, and star personae, the image of the female yakuza can be read as a commentary on social conditions in postwar Japan. We can see the rapid social and political changes of postwar Japan reflected and mediated through the changing image of the female yakuza heroine during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s
The book of tea,
The cup of humanity.--The schools of tea.--Taoism and Zennism.--The tea-room.--Art appreciation.--Flowers.--Tea-masters.Mode of access: Internet
Le livre du thƩ / Okakura-Kakuzo ; traduit de l'anglais par Gabriel Mourey...
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