これぞニッポン This is Japan!

あなたが「日本らしさ」を感じるシーン、物、考え方や行動を、「ごんぎつね」の中からピックアップしてください。

Please pick up scenes, things, way of thinking, behavior, or actions in which you find (traditional) Japanese touch, or Japanese style.


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  1. I signaled those scenes in the booklet.
    I found a few cultural elements interesting, especially for foreigners. The fishing scene was quite hard to understand at first, a Japanese friend had to draw me the scene because I wasn’t sure how the net was set. This kind is of disposition is not used where I lived.
    Then there is a description of the funeral of Hyoju’s mother: women blackening their teeth, cooking in the dead’s house, dressing in white, the procession.
    On the same religious theme, the presence of the monks inside a house praying with the villagers seems strange to me. In Catholicism we either pray before meal or bedtime at home, or pray with other people at church. But there is no ceremony at home.
    I recently learned also that the blue light at Gon’s death represents tama, or the soul of the dead person. We have this idea of the soul living the body at death, but it is often referred to as a bright light.
    Another point is the presence of a sardine seller. I am not sure if this still takes place in Japan today. I have not seen ambulant merchants in Europe. It was common in medieval times, so they are present in lots of old stories, and also tales for children, but are not part of our reality.
    About behaviour, the only point that strikes me as being typically Japanese is when Kasuke says to Hyoju that it is a god who brings him the presents. In a European tale, they will talk about spirits. Children’s tales, even if with a Christian moral, often uses paganism as a source for the characters. There are forest spirits, fairies, unicorns, dwarfs…

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