Перебор с расовой толерантностью: скандал в опере vesti.ru - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from vesti.ru Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
“Chinese Lions” (Provided by the Museum of the Imperial Collections)
Masterpieces of Japanese art handed down by the imperial family for generations are to be designated as national treasures for the first time.
They include “Chinese Lions,” which is painted on a folding screen by Kano Eitoku (1543-1590) and regarded as one of his most important works, and “The Mongol Invasion,” a picture scroll dating from the Kamakura Period (1185-1333).
The Council for Cultural Affairs submitted a report July 16 to the education minister proposing that four paintings and a work of calligraphy be given the double status of important cultural properties and national treasures.
Yukiko Miyagi and Fusako Shida become the first living national treasures in Ryukyu Buyo
Yukiko Miyagi (left, courtesy of Yukiko Miyagi) and Fusako Shida (right, courtesy of the Choyo-ryu school of Ryukyu dance) dancing the classic onna-odori “Shudun”
July 16, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
On July 16, the Japanese government’s Council for Cultural Affairs, chaired by Makoto Sato, provided Koichi Hagiuda, the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) with its selection for the next national living treasures. Nago-City native and current resident of Tsuji, Naha City, Yukiko Miyagi, 87, of the Shinyo-ryu school of Ryukyu traditional dance (Ryukyu Buyo), and Naha-City native and current resident of Nerima, Tokyo, Fusako Shida, 84, of the Choyo-ryu school of Ryukyu traditional dance, were chosen to be designated holders of nationally designated important intangible cultural properties (also known as national living treasures). It is the first time a living n
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Highways & Byways: Taiwan’s shadow-puppet capital
In addition to a shadow-puppet museum, Gangshan District also features an old street and a service known as ‘soothing a shocked soul’
By Steven Crook / Contributing reporter
I arrived in Kaohsiung’s Gangshan District (岡山) hoping to learn about shadow puppetry, and left with a renewed respect for this often-overlooked town.
Kaohsiung Museum of Shadow Puppets (高雄市皮影戲館) is part of Gangshan Cultural Center (岡山文化中心). The museum, which has been revised and repaired since it first opened in 1994, currently occupies part of the first floor. While far from huge, it does provide a decent introduction in Chinese and English.