DRAMA / Asian / Japanese

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

This study analyzed and compared the psychological competitive abilities of 466 youth soccer players from South Korea (n = 152), China (n = 151), and Japan (n = 163) using the Diagnostic Inventory of Psychological Competitive Ability (DIPCA.3) as the measurement tool. The results revealed significant cross-cultural differences: Chinese players exhibited greater patience (M = 4.42) than South Korean (M = 4.09) and Ja…

Reference · Wikidata

Japanese actress and singer

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Kyoko Fukada is a Japanese actress and singer. She is represented by the agency Horipro. She won the award for Best Actress at the Yokohama Film Festival for Kamikaze Girls.

Book · DOAB

For many years, the oral performing and dramatic literatures of China from 1200 to 1600 CE were considered some of the most difficult texts in the Chinese corpus. They included ballad medleys, comic farces, Yuan music dramas, Ming music dramas, and the novel Shuihu zhuan. The Japanese scholars who first dedicated themselves to study these works in the mid-twentieth century were considered daring. As late as 1981, no…

Full text · Open Library

Image · DPLA

Kabuki actors were a popular subject of Japanese prints. Versatile and innovative, the top actors often played a wide range of male and female roles. The actors here, both charismatic stars in the Edo theatrical world, play young warriors in a period drama loosely based on events in the fifteenth century. At right, Sawamura Sojuro I (1685-1756) plays Hosokawa Katsumoto (1430-1473), while Ichikawa Monnosuke I (1691-1…