Doodle

Japanese: doodling
Doodle

...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 emotion. The word scribbling, which refers to the absent-minded act of children drawing on the ground or paper with chalk or crayons, is roughly the same as the everyday English word scribbling or American doodling. In this case, it is a play of the brush or a play of the mind that does not need to convey any meaning in itself, and there is no requirement of prohibition. ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "doodling" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…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。この場合,描く像がそれ自体として意味を伝えなくてもよいような筆の遊び,心の遊びであって,禁制という要件は入ってこない。…

※「doodling」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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