Word: bunka
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...Watanabe is the wunderkind of the bunch. After graduating from Tokyo's renowned Bunka Fashion College in 1984, he joined Kawakubo's label, Comme des Garcons. In 1992 he designed his first eponymous collection for the house...
...scholar who is admiringly called "Bunka Taishi," the cultural ambassador, Ed Reischauer has an entrée to Japanese universities that is jealously denied other foreign officials. In every campus appearance he has scrupulously avoided propaganda, but manages nonetheless to get in some pertinent points. In a discussion of "Japanese History as Viewed from Abroad," he gracefully recalled the oft-forgotten fact that Japan had a thriving parliamentary tradition for 80 years before it was choked by the militarists in the '30s. The between-the-lines message was to Japanese radicals who are impatient with the legal niceties...
...this, Curator Tomita and Director Edgell hit upon the notion of borrowing a lot more Japanese Art and giving a big show in conjunction with Harvard's Tercentenary. President Count Kentaro Kaneko (Class of 1878) of the Harvard Club of Tokyo collaborated enthusiastically. So did the Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, the Society for International Cultural Relations. Curator Tomita, who knows all the first-rank collectors in Japan, went to Tokyo in April. Director Edgell arrived in May, charmed the Japanese by laying flowers on the tomb of Professor Ernest Fenollosa, who gave the Museum of Fine Arts some...
...Bunka Undo" means literally cultural movement. To the Japanese it signifies the cultural movement of Japanese women along Western lines...
Political rights for women is part of the bunka movement. There is a bunka restaurant in Tokyo where men and women meet to discuss politics on common ground. Tennis for women is bunka, but dancing?dancing is to the Japanese too degrading to be known as bunka. Books dealing with the part women are playing in democracy are bunka novels. In other words, bunka is the thin edge of the wedge for enfranchizing the little ladies of Nippon...