American Graffiti

Japanese: 《アメリカン・グラフィティ》 - あめりかんぐらふぃてぃ
American Graffiti

...In particular, the Pompeii paintings have been the subject of controversy over the depiction of sexual intercourse being unethical, which overlaps with the fact that in Japan, the spontaneous nature of rakugo has an element of opposition to prohibition. After the 1973 American film American Graffiti, directed by George Lucas, depicted the youth of the 1960s, this academic term has gone beyond the academic world and has come to be used in contemporary Japanese journalism, especially as a frank expression of sensibility. Incidentally, rakugo, which refers to the act of a child absent-mindedly drawing on the ground or paper with chalk or crayon, is roughly equivalent to the everyday English word scribbling and American word doodling. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "American Graffiti" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…とくにポンペイの絵についてはその性交描写が倫理観にそむくという論争がつづいたことは,日本で落書の自然発生的な性格が禁制と対立する要素をもったこととかさなり合うところがある。1973年アメリカでジョージ・ルーカスGeorge Lucas監督が1960年代の青春を映画《アメリカン・グラフィティAmerican Graffiti》に描いてのち,この学術用語は学界の枠を超え,とくに現代日本のジャーナリズムで率直な感性表明という意味をこめて愛用されるようになっている。なお,子どもが地面や紙の上に白墨,クレヨンなどで何を描くともなく,無心に描くような行為をさしていう落書は,英語でscribbling,米語でdoodlingと呼んでいる日常語がほぼ該当する。…

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