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Shōjo, Kawaii, And Yōkai Iconographies In Chiho Aoshima's Strawberry Fields And How They Relate To Contemporary Gender Dynamics In Japan, Neo Sim Yee Nov 2023

Shōjo, Kawaii, And Yōkai Iconographies In Chiho Aoshima's Strawberry Fields And How They Relate To Contemporary Gender Dynamics In Japan, Neo Sim Yee

Theses

This paper analyzes the shōjo, kawaii, and yōkai iconographies in Chiho Aoshima’s digital painting Strawberry Fields and examines how they relate to contemporary gender dynamics and anxieties in Japan. The painting bears the artist’s distinctive, characteristic style, which includes elements that are childlike and monstrous, cute and dark. The work, rich in layered context, simultaneously reminisces about the innocence and freedom of adolescence, and critiques the prominent the unequal, rigid, and highly restrictive gender roles dictated by the Japanese patriarchal system. The distinct two halves of Strawberry Fields depict the dichotomous vision of Japanese women—innocent and girly versus defiant and …


A Comparison Of The Canadian And Japanese Unesco Cultural World Heritage Sites, Tessa L. V. O'Connor May 2022

A Comparison Of The Canadian And Japanese Unesco Cultural World Heritage Sites, Tessa L. V. O'Connor

The Confluence

The purpose of this comparative study was to explore the similarities and differences between Canadian and Japanese cultures through a comparison of their respective UNESCO Cultural World Heritage Sites. Specifically, the historical, religious and spiritual, and geographical factors that led to the designation of said World Heritage sites in each country are compared. Analysis of these factors reveals that Canadian Cultural World Heritage Sites, as well as modern Canadian culture, have been molded by a combination of foreign and domestic influences. In contrast, Japanese Cultural World Heritage Sites and modern culture are primarily a result of domestic influences. The cumulative …


August Busch Jr Letter To J.G. Taylor Spink About St. Louis Cardinals Visit To Japan. September 29, 1958, August A. Busch Jr. Sep 1958

August Busch Jr Letter To J.G. Taylor Spink About St. Louis Cardinals Visit To Japan. September 29, 1958, August A. Busch Jr.

The Spink Papers

August Busch Jr Letter to J.G. Taylor Spink About St. Louis Cardinals visit to Japan. September 29, 1958


Letter To Mary Sibley From Isaac Yokoyama, November 5, 1873, Isaac K. Yokoyama Nov 1873

Letter To Mary Sibley From Isaac Yokoyama, November 5, 1873, Isaac K. Yokoyama

Mary Easton Sibley Papers

Transcript of letter to Mary Sibley from Isaac Yokoyama, November 5, 1873. Mr. Yokoyama was seeking a missionary wanted a missionary to send to Japan to help convert his sisters to Christianity.


Letter To Mary Sibley From Isaac Yokoyama, May 3, 1873, Isaac K. Yokoyama May 1873

Letter To Mary Sibley From Isaac Yokoyama, May 3, 1873, Isaac K. Yokoyama

Mary Easton Sibley Papers

Transcript of letter to Mary Sibley from Isaac Yokoyama, May 3, 1873. Mr. Yokoyama is looking for a missionary willing to go to Japan to help convert his sisters to Christianity.


Letter To Mary Sibley From Isaac Yokoyama, 1873, Isaac K. Yokoyama Dec 1872

Letter To Mary Sibley From Isaac Yokoyama, 1873, Isaac K. Yokoyama

Mary Easton Sibley Papers

Transcript of letter to Mary Sibley from Isaac Yokoyama, 1873. Mr. Yokoyama was seeking help to find a missionary to send to Japan, to help convert his sisters and others, to Christianity.