望み – What is that you desire? – Traditional Japanese Culture ‘Rahmens’ style!

Traditional Japanese Culture ‘Rahmens’ style!

windbell on June 6, 2007 in Japan

^ In the Traditional Japanese culture, girls have to dress up like Mikos and in kimonos. The Mikos get to fondle with the butts of the Kimono girls as a sign of good luck ^^; (That is not real, I made it up!)

How do you use a chopstick? How about eating sushi? Apologizing (Dogeza) even?! Watch the videos below on how to do it the ‘Rahmens’ Japanese way!

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The Japanese Tradition – Chopsticks: Subtitled

06:24

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日本の形 The Japanese Tradition －鮨 sushi

03:00

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日本の形 The Japanese Tradition －土下座 Dogeza

06:25

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These are parodies/spoof which are based on the Japanese culture and Language. In simpler terms, they are basically spoofs.

The two guys in the video are the comedy-duo in Japan called “Rahmens” [ラーメンズ] who were also featured in the Japanese version of the Mac v.s PC CM/adverts <Link> (Remember the ‘I’m a Mac. And I’m a PC’ starting phrase?)

I love these spoofs of the Japanese traditional culture. Even though it is largly exaggerated and wrong at times, it definitely made my day! Those comedies are truly creative!

You might also want to check out alafista’s blog post <link> on it ^^ (Got the post idea from there)

There is also the dating series 交際 (こうさい) Part 1 <Link> and Part 2 <Link> which were very professionally made and talks about (愚全の例愛) “conicidence love” (Pardon my translation and Japanese ^^;).

Picture Information: The illustrator is 「ぐうたら産地」(Lazybones’ Production (?) ) and the picture is over at the Top page (【過去のTOP絵】 old→new) , last picture. And it seems that they are protected by the “Online Fanarts Protection”. And no, I didn’t rip it off from their site. Got it from an imageboard.

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Lunch with my Japanese sensei(s) (teachers) together with other students and conversing in Japanese! That’s pretty cool. I decided to join in. Calling up my classmates from my Japanese class, the three of us turned up at the lunch.

We met Yoko-sensei (My sensei for Japanese Basic A/101) & Chishiho-sensei (My sensei for Japanese Basic B/102) outside the cafeteria before proceeding in. There were 3 other students from the Intermediate A/Basic 103 class (All males) , and Makoto-kun, who’s our guest.

Sidenote: When we take Japanese language as our enrichment programme, We start from Basic A/103 followed by Basic B, thereafter Intermediate A, B and finally Advanced A, B.

Int A Guys: “あの　先生、ゲストはどこにですか？”

Chishiho-sensei: ”あら、それわまことーくん。”

Int A Guys: ”女ことじゃない？”

Chishiho-sensei: ”女ことじゃないて。”

Int A Guys: ”ああ。そか、残念ですようね。”
The guys from Int A reckoned that Makoto was a girl till Chishiho-sensei introduced him. We had a good laugh at that.

Makoto-kun is actually (half) Japanese I think. He is in Advanced B. Makoto-kun’s Japanese is rather fluent. He had home-stayed in Osaka, Japan with a family and is still in good contact with them. A Int-A dude asked for Makoto-kun’s email address.
We (They) talked about lots of stuff, from Makoto-kun’s homestay to the number of years our sensei has been in Singapore. Makoto-kun did most of the talking and I listened to their conversation quietly. I was able to understand most of their conversation, despite being in Basic B. It’s probably the watching of J-dramas/Anime and reading of ‘Someday’s Dreamer”. Vocabulary is utmost one of the most essential thing to know in order to converse properly in Japanese I reckon. That would add a lot more flavour in the conversation.

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We ended the session at about 10 minutes to 2pm and I headed back to my block for my afternoon classes.