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Sakura, manga, kimono: Representation of Japan at Japanese themed events
Nezveda, Tomáš ; Halbich, Marek (advisor) ; Knotková - Čapková, Blanka (referee)
Sakura, manga, kimono: Representation of Japan at Japanese themed events Bc. Tomáš Nezveda Abstract This thesis studies the issue of a representation of Japan at Japanese themed events in the Czech Republic. The conclusions of this thesis are based on empirical research in three essential terrains - the Japan Information and Culture Centre of the Japanese Embassy in the Czech Republic, the Czech-Japanese Association, and the Czech anime community. Each terrain's activities are analyzed to identify images of Japan they produce for their visitors. This contextual basis is built on for a further analysis of three significant issues that arise from the research - the difference and prevalence of Japanese culture in the Czech Republic, its authenticity, and the tendency of Czech fans to idealize Japan.
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Japanese fairy tales: typical motifs, characters and patterns
VENEROVÁ, Linda
This theoretical thesis will discuss if there are any typical patterns of Japanese culture, studied and analyzed particularly by anthropologists, in traditional Japanese fairytales. In this thesis, I shall analyze Japanese fairytales and then compare them with patterns present in Japanese culture. I would also like to discover which characters are repetitive if any and what are their characteristics.
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The role of the traditional festivals (matsuri) in modern Japan
Valková, Henrieta ; Sýkora, Jan (advisor) ; Tirala, Martin (referee)
Traditional Japanese festivals matsuri used to play an important role in the annual cycle of Japanese agricultural communities. They marked special days outside of the everyday order, reserved for relaxation and for prayers to deities who were believed to have influence over the quality of the crops. However, with the beginning of the modern period in Japanese history, the agricultural community that used to form the core of Japanese society began to dissolve and with that changed also the perception of festivals. The aim of this thesis is, through illustrating various factors and analyzing available as well as my own statictical data, to find the answer to the question of what role such slávnosťs play in modern Japanese society. At the end of my thesis I will present a case study of the Gion matsuri, that has been held almost without interruption for more than a thousand years. Key words: Japanese culture, traditional festivals, matsuri, Gion matsuri, social ties, commercialization
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Barbora Markéta Eliášová and the image of Japan in the Czech society in the twentyth 20 century
Jurčíčková, Romana ; Hnilica, Jiří (advisor) ; Havlůjová, Hana (referee)
The work deals with the Czech travelers to Japan who have taken their expeditions in the early 20th century, and after returning to his homeland on their testimony in the form of a travelogue. From this perspective, attention is directed primarily to the person of Barbara Markéta Eliášová which, as the first woman to own not only take a trip around the world, but in Japan, spent several years and knew perfectly the local life. Based on the literary works of travelers is then pointed out that their fellow citizens at home submit an image of Japan as a modernizing country that despite everything, but still retaining the character of traditional society and culture. To a lesser extent, the work deals with political and commercial relations between Japan and the independent Czechoslovakia after 1918. Relations between the two countries to develop contacts with Czech legionnaires and Japanese soldiers fighting together against the Bolsheviks in Siberia. Were then rounded out the emergence of the Czechoslovak Embassy in Tokyo.
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Death and the burial rites in the Murasaki Shikibu's novel benji monogatari
Heldenburg, Olga ; Vrhel, František (advisor) ; Nymburská, Dita (referee) ; Tirala, Martin (referee)
The subject of this dissertation is funeral rites in the Murasaki Shikibu's novel, The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari). The analysis of the text seeks to explore the author's depiction of the end of life, the afterlife, communication with spirits or souls of dead and to summarize the notes and descriptions of the proceedings of funeral rituals including 'before burial' and memorial ceremonies. The purpose of this dissertation is to create an overview of funeral rituals and ideas of death described in the text of Genji Monogatari. The Tale of Genji is considered a document which reflects contemporary thinking and can therefore be relied on for a study of funeral and memorial rituals. The main method used to develop the topic is a detailed analysis of theoretical, practical and aesthetic aspects of death described in the Genji Monogatari novel. The ideas of the Heian Court about death and the afterlife were mainly affecting the cult of ancestors, Shinto, Taoism, Buddhism and Shamanism, which also participated in the creation of the funeral cult. Ideas of the afterlife were also very diverse. The world of the living and the world of the dead, in the concept of old Japanese, were not strictly divided and spirits had access to all spheres of life. Communication with spirits of the living and the souls...
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Zobrazení japonské kultury v románu The Narrow Road to the Deep North od Richarda Flanagana
Novotná, Markéta ; Topolovská, Tereza (advisor) ; Chalupský, Petr (referee)
The aim of this MA thesis is to describe and evaluate the manner in which Richard Flanagan captured Japanese culture in his 2013 novel, The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Since the main motif of the work is the life of an Australian prisoner of war, a topic that has been significant in the creation of Australian national identity, the novel is firstly analysed from its position in the wider context of Australian literature. Richard Flanagan provided the readers with a complex work, which presents the given motif not only from the perspective of the Australian prisoners-of-war, but also from the perspective of their predominantly Japanese captors. The inclusion of the points of view of the Japanese ranks the novel among the contemporary adaptations that provide a more comprehensive view on the events of World War II. For that reason, the novel is assessed as to the complexity and accuracy of the selected and incorporated areas of Japanese culture, whether there is a tendency for schematization in the depiction, and therefore a display of the so-called "Orientalism", as described by Edward Said. This MA thesis aims to analyse whether, and to what degree Flanagan's novel differs from other works of the Australian literature that deal with the events of World War II and Japan. The analysis focuses on...
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Death and the burial rites in the Murasaki Shikibu's novel benji monogatari
Heldenburg, Olga ; Vrhel, František (advisor) ; Nymburská, Dita (referee) ; Tirala, Martin (referee)
The subject of this dissertation is funeral rites in the Murasaki Shikibu's novel, The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari). The analysis of the text seeks to explore the author's depiction of the end of life, the afterlife, communication with spirits or souls of dead and to summarize the notes and descriptions of the proceedings of funeral rituals including 'before burial' and memorial ceremonies. The purpose of this dissertation is to create an overview of funeral rituals and ideas of death described in the text of Genji Monogatari. The Tale of Genji is considered a document which reflects contemporary thinking and can therefore be relied on for a study of funeral and memorial rituals. The main method used to develop the topic is a detailed analysis of theoretical, practical and aesthetic aspects of death described in the Genji Monogatari novel. The ideas of the Heian Court about death and the afterlife were mainly affecting the cult of ancestors, Shinto, Taoism, Buddhism and Shamanism, which also participated in the creation of the funeral cult. Ideas of the afterlife were also very diverse. The world of the living and the world of the dead, in the concept of old Japanese, were not strictly divided and spirits had access to all spheres of life. Communication with spirits of the living and the souls...
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Changing attitude of Japanese towards South Korea in dependence of "Korean wave"
Jarchovská, Anna ; Sýkora, Jan (advisor) ; Tirala, Martin (referee)
(in English): This thesis is focused on exploring problems of adoption of South Korean television drama by Japanese audience. The thesis examines the degree of idealization of South Korea by Japanese viewers of Korean television drama Winter sonata. The first part is about the arrival of the Korean television drama to Japan, socio-cultural background of Japan in the nineties and to the typical Japanese viewers of television drama Winter Sonata. The second part deals with the analysis of the work itself in terms of atmosphere and story construction. The third part is about selected cultural aspects contained in the TV drama Winter Sonata, which caused its popularity among Japanese audiences. The last part describes the period after the broadcasting of television drama Winter Sonata in Japan. Conclusion part summarizes which aspects caused the popularity of the television drama Winter Sonata in Japan, how does the image of "Japanese Korea" based on watching Korean television drama Winter sonata look like and and how the Korean Wave touched awareness of Japanese of Korea in general.
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