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hanae mori Biography and profiles of fashion designers Link between the Oriental culture and the Western culture, Hanae Mori initiates Japanese women with the luxury and the beauty of the Parisian fashion and, at the same time, mixes acutely the touches of Japanese aesthetics in the creations intended for her Parisian customers. Hanae Mori is a pioneer: in Japan where a woman is traditionally confined in the roles of wife, mother and housewife, she broke with these constraints to build a fashion empire. Hanae Mori took up with the art of costume for opera and ballet: in 1985 she realized costumes for the opera "Mrs Butterfly" at La Scala of Milan, then those of the opera Electra for the 1996 Salzburg Festival and, in 1986 those of the "Cinderella" ballet directed by Rudolf Noureev for the Paris Opera. www.infomat.com /whoswho/hanaemori.html

eyestorm - article - Mariko Mori Mori's art takes on the futuristic landscapes of contemporary urban Japan, and in the end, like the Kami, she becomes a syncretic archetypal figure able to engage the mythologies of her environment and flow with the currents of culture. Mori draws analogies between what is articulated in fiction, language, and visuality, and points to a tug-of-war between her identity as a Japanese woman and her entrance into a milieu of global culture and electronic, urban multiplicity. Mori's fascination with the construction of artifice, and her rigorous attention to detail, may be traced to her early training at the Bunka Fashion College in Tokyo. www.eyestorm.com /feature/ED2n_article.asp?article_id=73&artist_id=114

Mary Ellen Mark: One Woman Show Fellow artist Kunie Sugiura said in a 1998 Journal of Contemporary Art interview with Mori, "It is also surprising to me that your photographs are about teenage–not adult–fantasies." Mori’s justification: Older generations tried to copy Western culture, but the youth are original and powerful. Unlike artists whose success seems incumbent on their degree of suffering and anonymity, Mori is adored by curators and consumer culture alike. Mori said in a 1999 interview with Germano Celant: "I am interested in circulating past iconography in the present in order to get to the future." If Mori’s success is any indication, the future is now. www.heroinemag.com /archive/oneWomanShow/2/onewomanshow.html

Reed Construction Data - Lofty Ambitions Yet, in a symbolic gesture of his commitment to art and culture, Mori reserved the top five floors in the tower for the Mori Arts Center. With its lantern-like entryway capturing the attention of patrons, the Mori Arts Center elevates art and culture to new heights. Anchoring the development is Mori Tower, a 780-foot, 54-story office structure sheathed in glass and steel and rounded at the corners. www.reedconstructiondata.com /article/CA404413.html

MCA Chicago: Mariko Mori Mariko Mori's large photographs and video installations present futuristic scenes that meditate on the profusion of artifice in contemporary culture and extract elements of Eastern spiritual thought and art to express optimism for life in the next millennium. She attended art schools in London and New York, and her work reflects the combination of influences from Eastern and Western cultures. Mori's work thus draws together new technologies and futuristic icons from the mediascape of the present and the spirituality and tradition of the past. www.mcachicago.org /MCA/exhibit/past/Mori

Mariko Mori and Salvador Dali Mariko Mori is not actually making kitsch, she is playing with the idea of kitsch as you see it in popular culture. King: Yes, and while a lot of Mori's work is easily identifiable as pop, her newer work seems to reflect the life of the mind. All these artists share a persona that went beyond the paintings, films and other artworks that they actually made, and that served as kind of a front. www.carnegiemuseums.org /cmag/bk_issue/1998/julaug/feat5.htm

Mori/Sugiura Mori: When I went back to Japan after a long stay here, I thought that the youth culture was most energetic. Mori: Some of them were published in a magazine there. Mori: What is happening [in art] in New York is compared with the collective mentality in this society. www.jca-online.com /mori.html

Bombyx Mori le ver à soie In the reign of Henri IV the culture of the mulberry tree extended considerably in the south and the centre of France. The bombyx mori feeds exclusively on leaves of mulberry tree, which are spred on the racks formed with a wooden frame and on which the bottom, in trellis of reeds or iron wires, is covered with a sheet of strong paper. The caterpillar of the silkworm distinguishes itself especially from the other bombyx by a sort of horn on the last segment, in a similar way of sphinx, although it does not belong to this family. www.cvmt.com /bombyxmoriUS.htm   (2245 words)

DIKE BLAIR writing Mariko Mori: I thought of using NYC as my location, but I thought that in addressing the topic of technology I need to use a place where people create a culture of technology--I then thought that's where I come from. Mariko Mori: The women are cyborgs--there is the "School Girl," the "Office Lady" and the "Prostitute." I call them cyborgs to speak metaphorically of the woman's role in Japan--it's a kind of social comment. Dike Blair: Is there an Eastern sensibility of art making that is less schizophrenic than Western art making? www.thing.net /~lilyvac/writing22.html   (2245 words)

PAF: Projects: Mori: Press Release Mori first became known in the 1990s for her engaging, highly stylized photographic and multimedia works that blended animation and pop culture with Japanese ritual and cultural tradition. Mariko Mori, born in Tokyo, was educated at the Chelsea College of Art, London (1989-92) and participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. Mariko Mori's Wave UFO in the atrium of 590 Madison Avenue (at 56th Street) will be on view May 10 - July 31, 2003. publicartfund.org /pafweb/projects/mori_release_s03.html   (2245 words)

TIMEasia.com: Arts -- The Beat Goes On And Beat Takeshi's rebellion, which started as a genuinely subversive take on Japan, has become as ritualized as the culture it spoofs and as stylized as the gangster chic in his latest movie. "Takeshi, you are the son of a house painter," his brother admonished him. It was the early comedy, of course, rather than the cinematic flourishes that installed the Beat Takeshi myth in the public consciousness. www.time.com /time/asia/arts/magazine/0,9754,98030,00.html   (2245 words)

Tokyo's new 'artelligent city': a giant - and global - vision csmonitor.com But to Minoru Mori, a billionaire whose family name is synonymous with Tokyo real estate, the new tower and its unusual environs is a 17-year pursuit of a vision: a city within a city that expresses a Tokyo concept of globalization and culture. Mori is aiming to jump instantly into the big leagues of art as a Guggenheim or Tate of Asia, says curator David Elliott, an Englishman. Mori inaugurated the last element of his vision - one of the most unusual contemporary art galleries in the world, which floats above Tokyo on the 52nd and 53rd floors of the tower. www.csmonitor.com /2003/1230/p07s02-woap.html   (2245 words)

NYU > CAS > News & Events > Events > Scholars Lecture Series This talk examines the relationship between Mari’s worship and of her father, her ostensible infantilism, her over the top style, and her ability to detach pleasure and culture from identity in the most perverse and wonderful ways. Mori Mari (1903-1987) was the daughter of Mori Ogai (1862-1922), one of modern Japan’s most formidable male writers who worked to introduce Western literature and medicine to a Japan hell-bent on modernization. Finally, it asks whether Mari’s refusal to “grow up” might not suggest a queer way around the Oedipalized imperative of modernization personified in her father and his generation. www.nyu.edu /cas/NewsEvents/Events/lectureseries04-05.html   (2245 words)

Dalkey Archive Press: An Interview with Yoriko Shono YS: I have always admired the works of Mari Mori, the daughter of Oogai Mori, a famous writer of the early 1900s, who introduced many things from German culture into Japan. What I had in mind from the beginning, as a theme of this story, was "does love really require an other?" For example, in the eleventh-century novel, The Tale of Genji, Lady Murasaki wrote a story in which her simplest descriptions of the garden and the wind convey the atmosphere of love. And when you were starting out as a writer, were there any woman writers that you could look to as a kind of model? www.centerforbookculture.org /review/02_2_inter/interview_shono.html   (2245 words)

Israelites Came To Ancient Japan: Chapter 4 Arinori Mori (1847-1889) was the Minister of Education, Culture and Science of Japan in the Meiji-era. Lastly, let us look at the people around the mirror of Yata (Yata-no-kagami) which is the holy treasure of Shinto and one of the three holy treasures of the Imperial House of Japan. He insisted he saw that on the mirror of Yata in Ise grand shrine was written in Hebrew "eheyeh asher eheyeh" which is God's name written in Exodus 3:14 of the Bible and means "I AM THAT I AM." www5.ocn.ne.jp /~magi9/isracam4.htm   (2245 words)

Hanae Mori 1/4 Asian American Wonder Women GoldSea She thrives in cities but Mori traces the roots of her artistic inspiration to the gentle Japanese countryside where she frolicked as a girl. Little Hanae, clad in Parisian outfits, would sometimes squirm with embarrassment as she shuffled into the village schoolroom full of peasant children garbed in rags. Hanae Mori has found it in Paris with its riot of art, culture and libertine lifestyles.. goldsea.com /WW/Morihanae/morihanae.html   (2245 words)

Mariko Mori In these, she starred as a priestess, anime babe, and a goddess, exploring the imaginary iconography of a globalized future culture. The work flirted on the edge of kitsch, but also synthesized a myriad of connected influences, from anime to transhumanism, that were bubbling up in the pre-millennial psyche. And it catapulted 36 year-old Mori to the top of the global art scene. www.opednews.com /zolli_mariko_mori.htm   (2245 words)

"In ancient times skilful warriors first made themselves invincible, and then watched for vulnerability in their opponents Terumoto had been asking for trouble, as he had run through Nobunaga�s naval blockade of the Ikko-ikki at Ishiyama Hongan-ji. With Yamaguchi as a secure and rich home territory, after 1543 Yoshitaki worked out that warfare was a little too dangerous, and took to a life of culture, aided by exiled courtiers from Kyoto. Mori Motonari was dead, but his grandson, Mori Terumoto, ruled a rich domain of ten provinces. www.geocities.com /grasshopper_147/samurai/warrior2.html   (2245 words)

Home Page This new castle town was called Hiroshima or "wide island." Later, even though control of the castle passed from the Fukushima to the Asano clan, Hiroshima continued to develop as a powerful castle town, both economically and militarily, creating a diverse culture in its favorable geographic location. Terumoto Mori, a feudal lord in command of the area, built a castle on the delta of the Ota River to serve as a stronghold for his military power. The beginnings of this seaside town go back about four hundred years. www.teaching.com /mnorch/1999/print1.cfm?id=16   (2245 words)

Anti-Suicide Traditions The importance of distinguishing between behavior and culture is also seen in reference to the theme of women who commit suicide when courted by more than one lover, and in cases of parents who kill their children and then themselves. Mori Ogai (1862-1922) pointed out that there were cases of love suicides in Europe, although he felt there were no equivalents in the European languages to the Japanese words joshi [love death] or shinju [emotional profession of love (especially through mutual death)]. Mori Rintaro [Ogai], "Joshi" [Love deaths], Myojo, No. 10 (1903), as quoted in Inamura 1977 (Note 3), p. members.jcom.home.ne.jp /yosha/suicide/antisuicide.html   (2245 words)

Hypoglycemia-associated Hyperammonemia Caused by Impaired Expression of Ornithine Cycle Enzyme Genes in C/EBPalpha Knockout Mice -- Kimura et al. 273 (42): 27505 -- Journal of Biological Chemistry This work was supported in part by grants-in-aid from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture of Japan (to littermates at 5-7 h postpartum were subjected to electrophoresis in SDS gels consisting of polyacrylamide in 10%, except in 6% for CPS, transferred to nitrocellulose membranes, and immunodetected with specific antiserum against CPS, OTC, AS, AL, or arginase. allele die within 8 h of birth (20, 21), litters were investigated within www.jbc.org /cgi/content/full/273/42/27505   (2245 words)

Mori Art Museum, Tokyo’s New Cultural Centerpiece, Opens October 2003 Led by David Elliott, the first foreign director of an art museum in Japan, the Mori Art Museum has developed a compelling program of exhibitions that highlight the relevance and importance of visual culture as an integral and dynamic part of contemporary society. The Mori Art Museum was founded by Minoru Mori, president of the Mori Building Company and developer of Roppongi Hills, and Yoshiko Mori, chairperson of the Museum board and a longtime collector and supporter of the arts in Japan. Located on the top floors of the 54-story Mori Tower, the Museum is the jewel in the crown of Roppongi Hills, a revolutionary new commercial, residential and cultural community development. www.prweb.com /releases/2003/7/prweb71314.htm   (2245 words)

Travel - Forbes.com Mori's deep pockets lured a top British curator, David Elliott, the first non-Japanese director of an art museum in Japan. Mori has dubbed his whopper the "Artelligent City," and the showpiece graces the 52nd through the 54th floors: the 32,000-square-foot Mori Art Museum (like a certain developer in New York City, Mori is not shy with his name). Patterned on visionary architect Le Corbusier's vertical city, Mori's notion is to treat residents to parks, gardens, culture and nightlife. www.forbes.com /fyi/2004/1115/033.html   (2245 words)

Indigenous Peoples - Alive and Well in Your Classroom (Part 1) In 1991 I was asked to become translator for Yai Yukara no Mori, an Ainu culture preservation group that was the offspring of the Yai Yukara Academic Society, founded in 1973 with the purpose of reclaiming the stolen Ainu heritage. This was made very clear to me one day in May of 1992. Yai Yukara no Mori was having its first spring camp. www.jalt.org /global/33Ind.htm   (2245 words)

Amazon.ca: Books: The Dream of Water This isn't just about Kyoko Mori's life but the culture in which she is part of. We see Mori confront the tragedies that shaped her life up to the time she came to America as a teenager-her mother's suicide when Mori was in grade school, her father's indifference and mistreatment of her, and her stepmother's petty and self-serving behavior. Mori (Shizuko's Daughter, Holt, 1993), a college professor who now lives in Wisconsin, presents a poignant account of a journey to her Japanese homeland. www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0449910431/macinsearch08-20   (2245 words)

Publication List Genotoxicity of Ptaquiloside, a Bracken Carcinogen, in the Hepatocyte Primary Culture/DNA-Repair Test. Synthesis of a Functionalized Carbocyclic Skeleton of Ptaquilosin, the Aglycone of a Bracken Carcinogen Ptaquiloside Based on an Intramolecular Diels-Alder Reaction. Carcinogenicity in Rats of Ptaquiloside Isolated from Bracken. www.chem.tsukuba.ac.jp /~kigoshi/e/pub_kigoshi_e.html   (2245 words)

The Founding of the Asiatic Society of Japan and the Pioneers in Intercultural Studies There were also Japanese, like Mori Arinori, who spoke English very well and knew well the western world. Certainly Satow, Aston, Chamberlain were the concert pianists of the Japanese language and Japanese culture at that time. www.yushodo.co.jp /english/forum02/berendt/eng5.html   (2245 words)

The English Blog: Culture The article library has articles on a wide range of cultural topics and there are around fifty quizzes on cultural matters. New research by the MORI Social Research Institute on behalf of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) indicate that the 'British sense of humour', the 'stiff upper lip' and a 'bulldog spirit' are often seen as typically 'British' characteristics. Retro English, part of the excellent BBC World Service Learning English site, looks at "yesterday's phrases and crazes." Listen to people talking about phenomena such as 70s fashion, 80s Thatcherism and 90s technology. jeffreyhill.typepad.com /english/culture   (2245 words)

Shinsengumi: Tokugawa Shogunate - Home Clan Mori, the religious masters of Japanese culture Clan Oda, the savage warlords of Japan, seeking only to advance their own power. Uesugi, archers of great skill and incredible stealth, it is rumored that these men are taught to fire a bow before they are even taught to speak. sesshomarusama.proboards19.com /index.cgi   (452 words)

Gaming World // Articles - Culture of Japan — The Feudal Era The Ashikaga Clan drove Go-Daigo from the capitol of Kyoto and for over fifty-years fought him and his descendants, but in 1392, the Ashikaga Shogunate convinced Go-Daigo to give them the Crown Jewels and other imperial treasures, thus making the Ashikaga Clan the rulers of Japan. As if this weren’t already a volatile enough situation, blood was involved the leader of the Yamana Clan, Yamana Sozen, was Hosokawa Katsumoto’s father-in law! The daimyo were the Mori Clan, the Shimazu Clan, the Oda Clan, the Takeda Clan, the Imagawa Clan, the Uesugi Clan, and the Hojo Clan. www.gamingw.net /articles/100   (1684 words)

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