==BBC - The Art of Japanese Life (2017) Part 2 Cities== [[http://forums.mvgroup.org/index.php?showtopic=70386|BBC - The Art of Japanese Life (2017) Part 2 Cities]] {{fhd.jpg?45|}} {{http://forums.mvgroup.org/release.images/JungleBoy/The.Art.of.Japanese.Life.00.jpg?300&nolink|}} Dr James Fox looks at the art and culture of Japan. **Part 2 Cities** He explores how the artistic life of three Japanese cities shaped the country's attitudes to past and present, east and west, and helped forge the very idea of Japan itself. In Kyoto, James reveals how the flowering of classical culture produced many treasures of Japanese art, including The Tale of Genji, considered to be the first novel ever written. In Edo, where Tokyo now stands, a very different art form emerged, in the wood block prints of artists such as Hokusai and Hiroshige. James meets the artisans still creating these prints today, and discovers original works by a great master, Utamaro, who documented the so-called 'floating world'. In contemporary Tokyo, James discovers the darker side of Japan's urbanisation through the photographs of Daido Moriyama, and meets a founder of the Studio Ghibli, Isao Takahata, whose film Grave of the Fireflies helped establish anime as a powerful and serious art form. ==See Also== {{http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08tvzws|BBC Site}} ==Trailer== ,,Full Version Available Upon Request,, {{ youtube> }} ==Full Version== \\ \\ ,,The availability of this link might be uncertain!,,\\ ,,Full version is available upon request.,, {{ youtube>jNai9M1PGt0 }} \\ \\ {{tag>FHD Travel Japan Nature Culture Environment Geography Religion Art BBC SER BBC_-_The_Art_of_Japanese_Life_(2017) FF 2017 Ar06/17 Name}}