REPRESENTATION OF JAPANESE CULTURE IN ERAI TOKORO NI TOTSUIDE SHIMATTA BY MAKIMURA KIMIKO

Abstract

Erai Tokoro Ni Totsuide Shimatta! (ETNTS) by Makimura Kimiko (2006) is one of the
Japanese literary works that depicts Japanese culture. This novel tells the story of a
character named Makimura Kimiko, a freelance journalist. She recently married a man
whose family still followed traditional customs. It is the traditional habits that are very
interesting to study. In the current digital era, traditional habits that are rarely found in
Japanese society have appeared in this novel. The purpose of this research is to examine
cultural representations through traditional habits that appear in this drama through a
literary anthropological approach and use John Fiske's semiotic theory.The object of
this research material is the novel Erai Tokoro Ni Totsuide Shimatta! (ETNTS) by
Makimura Kimiko (2006). The formal object in this study is a representation of
Japanese culture.