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I've been to Noh theater It was amazing! Did you know that Noh means “skill” that’s pretty funny.  Its one of the oldest forms of theater in the world!!but it was extremely strict Its like a library but worse you have to respect when the play is going on. I was up front and the actors were masked but I could see how much they practiced because each movement was precise. I could see why they respected the noh theater so much because its cultural and historical metaphor for the Japanese.One of my Aristocratic Japanese women friend told me they were taught to read and write Japanese but  not taught Chinese because that was reserved for the political leaders who were all men.There are forms of poetry like the  tanka  is a type of poetry that, like the haiku, has a rigid form, with a set number of syllables making up each of its five to seven lines its kinda like rapping but much more respectable. The tanka was the main poetic form in Japan and I took a class to learn it !. Heres a picture a painting i bought of a old samuri.

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Wow you should see it here In Japan! It’s so different they adopted many aspects of Chinese culture and government. They look up to China. They adopted Buddhism as their religion because of china and not to mention China’s ideographic writing system. It’s all been very good I’ve learned so much history , have you heard of The Fujiwara there dictators but once  they became patrons of the arts. Both literature and painting flourished during this period cause of them. Oh my gosh, I didn’t think I would ever see a samurai!  There in Japan because there an icon of their nation’s culture and its romantic and past. For the Japanese, the samurai represent battle skills, loyalty and courage. The samurai follow the “bushido code” and they have so many skills. I had the opportunity to go to the daimyo’s castle because of a friend of mine and get to watch them practice.