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Use this room when you already know the kind of cultural terrain you want to inspect. For guided orientation, open the Field Map or begin with a pathway.

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Now showing — Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter: The Kingdom of Cuisine · 5 works

  • Late Spring Film · 1940s

    A father and daughter, and the quiet devastation of inevitable change.

    After-hoursLongingUrban isolation
  • Snow Country Books · 1940s

    A Tokyo dilettante visits a hot spring geisha. Longing, futility, and the beauty of impermanence.

    LongingMemoryMigration
  • Love, politics, and philosophy in Prague Spring. Lightness versus weight as existential choice.

    LongingMemoryMigration
  • Heartstopper Television · 2020s

    Heartstopper is a British coming-of-age romantic comedy-drama television series created by British author Alice Oseman for Netflix, based on her graphic novels and webcomic series of the same name. The series follows the lives Charlie Spring, a gay teen boy who falls in love with classmate Nick (Nicholas) Nelson, wh...

    PowerLongingSurveillance
  • Blue Spring Ride Anime · 2010s

    While most young girls make an effort to show off their feminine charms, Futaba Yoshioka deliberately behaves like she wants to repel anyone who might be attracted to her. Ostracized by her female classmates in middle school for being a little too popular with the boys, she desperately strives to avoid a similar sit...

    PowerFolkloreIdentity
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