Finals: The Garden of Woods

Question 1

The Garden of Words is by

Answer 1

Makoto Shinkai

Question 2

Pathos of Things

-Impermanence

Answer 2

Mono no Aware

Question 3

Subtlety

Answer 3

Wabi

Question 4

Sadness/Rustic Patina

Answer 4

Sabi

Question 5

Profound Grace

Answer 5

Yugen

Question 6

Refined Style

Answer 6

Iki

Question 7

Cutting

Answer 7

Kire

Question 8

something that has acquired rust but also a patina that makes it beautiful

Answer 8

Rustic patina

Question 9

to become desolate

Answer 9

Loneliness (sabishi)

Question 10

In Chinese Philosophy, it may mean dark or mysterious

Answer 10

Yugen

Question 11

Geisha is aka

Answer 11

Bitai

Question 12

Resgination is aka

Answer 12

akirame

Question 13

brave composure i aka

Answer 13

ikiji

Question 14

Refers to the metaphorical death and rebirth

Answer 14

Kire

Question 15

Who are the main characters?

Answer 15

Yukari Yukino

Takao Akizuki

Question 16

Where do Yukino and Akizuki meet?

Answer 16

Shinjuku National Gyoen Garden

Question 17

What was Yukino drinking and/or eating when she first met Akizuki?

Answer 17

Beer and chocolate

Question 18

What’s the significance of the tanka in the movie?

Answer 18

The first tanka serves as a foreshadowing, even though it was meant to give Takao a hint as to what is Yukino’s occupation

The reply to the tanka reflects Takao’s feelings for Yukino

Question 19

What is the significance of the seasons (kisetsu) in the movie?

Answer 19

It represents how much time has passed in the story

Question 20

Why does Akizuki like the rain?

Answer 20

At first, it makes him feel like the sky was much closer.

But it later becomes a way for him to meet with Yukino

Question 21

What does Akizuki think of the place he’s in during sunny days?

Answer 21

On sunny days, he goes to school and:

“I noticed that on sunny days, I was in a terrible, childish place with nothing but impatience”

Question 22

What is Akizuki’s dream?

Answer 22

to be a shoemaker

Question 23

What sparked that interest of his?

Answer 23

When he first saw the shoes that his mother received for her birthday

Question 24

After spending time with Yukino, what did Akizuki begin to pray for?

Answer 24

Rainy days

Question 25

What does Akizuki think of Yukino?

Answer 25

A representation of the mysteries of the adult world

Question 26

What is Yukino’s occupation?

Answer 26

A Japanese literature teacher

Question 27

What was Yukino actually doing in the park?

Answer 27

Practicing how to walk properly on her own

Question 28

What does Yukino mean when she said she can no longer walk properly?

Answer 28

She stopped growing as an individual and began being a bystander who just lets things go as they please without putting any effort at all into changing the direction of things

Question 29

What did Takao do after knowing why Yukino quit?

Answer 29

He looked for the upperclassmen who bullied Yukino and slapped Aizawa, getting himself into a fight

Question 30

Why do the scenes focus more on the feet, especially Yukino’s?

Answer 30

- theme of "walking" | - Akizuki is Yukino’s support in walking.