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The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife. The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife ( Japanese: 蛸と海女, Hepburn: Tako to Ama, " Octopus (es) and the Shell Diver "), also known as Girl Diver and Octopi, Diver and Two Octopi, etc., is a woodblock-printed design by the Japanese artist Hokusai. It is included in Kinoe no Komatsu ('Young Pines'), a three ...
There is continuing debate about the role women's education plays in Japan's declining birthrate. [ 66] Japan's total fertility rate is 1.4 children born per woman (2015 estimate), [ 67] which is below the replacement rate of 2.1. Japanese women have their first child at an average age of 30.3 (2012 estimate).
Japanese female beauty practices and ideals are a cultural set of standards in relevance to human physical appearance and aesthetics. Distinctive features of Japanese aesthetics have the following qualities: simplicity, elegance, suggestion, and symbolism. [1] Concepts of female beauty originate from its traditional culture which has lasted for ...
The Hiroshima Maidens ( Japanese: 原爆乙女 ( Genbaku otome ); lit. 'atomic bomb maidens') are a group of 25 Japanese women who were school-age girls when they were seriously disfigured as a result of the thermal flash of the fission bomb dropped on Hiroshima on the morning of August 6, 1945. They subsequently went on a highly publicized ...
The Japan women's national football team ( Japanese: サッカー日本女子代表, Hepburn: Sakkā Nippon Joshi Daihyō), commonly known as Nadeshiko Japan (なでしこジャパン), [ 3] represents Japan in women's association football and is run by the Japan Football Association (JFA). The only country to win every FIFA competition and the ...
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Yamato ( 大和) was an ancient name for Japan and, therefore, has nationalistic connotations. The name also contains a floral metaphor. The word nadeshiko refers to Dianthus superbus, a frilled pink carnation. [ 2] The word nadeshiko (撫子) also means beloved or dear child (lit. "child being petted"). The combination of these two meanings ...
Photograph of a man and woman wearing traditional clothing, taken in Osaka, Japan. There are typically two types of clothing worn in Japan: traditional clothing known as Japanese clothing (和服, wafuku), including the national dress of Japan, the kimono, and Western clothing (洋服, yōfuku), which encompasses all else not recognised as either national dress or the dress of another country.