The Enpirical Study of "Mosaic Culture" Formation in Contemporary Japan : Everday Life of International Marriage Family

本研究旨在探讨仙台日本夫妻间跨文化家庭的新型日常文化之形成。在这项研究中，结合了日本和菲律宾文化元素的新形成的文化被概念化为马赛克文化，因为不同的文化元素构成了马赛克的碎片。作为七夕游行的一部分，一群菲律宾妻子表演的“菲律宾舞蹈”被分析为“马赛克文化”的一个例子。由菲律宾妻子和日本大学生组成的团队表演的舞蹈，作为菲律宾文化的代表呈现给日本观众，本身就是菲律宾文化传统不同元素的马赛克。这种舞蹈也是仙台七夕更大的马赛克的组成部分，因此七夕也成为不同文化的马赛克。最后，这段舞蹈被录制成视频，播放给家乡的菲律宾亲戚，既代表了仙台的日本文化，也代表了嫁给日本丈夫的菲律宾妻子。七夕的“菲律宾舞”是一种“相同”的文化表演，是一幅“单一”的马赛克作品，因此在不同的作品群中具有不同的意义。

The purpose of this study is to investigate the formation of new type of everyday culture of the intercultural family of Japanese husband and Filipino wife in Sendai. In this study, the newly formed culture that combines the elements of both Japanese and Filipino cultures is conceptualized as "mosaic culture" in that different cultural elements constitute pieces of a mosaic. The "Filipino dance" performed as part of the Tanabata Festival procession by a group of Filipino wives is analyzed as an example of the "mosaic culture." The dance performed by a team of Filipino wives and Japanese college students and presented to the Japanese audience as a representation of Filipino culture is itself a mosaic of different elements of Filipino cultural traditions. The dance also functions as a constitutive piece of a larger mosaic of Sendai Tanabata Festival, hence Tanabata Festival also becomes a mosaic of different cultures. Finally, the dance taped in a video and shown to Filipino relatives back home functions as a representation both of Japanese culture in Sendai and of the Filipino wives married to Japanese husbands. The "Filipino dance" in Tanabata Festival, a "same" cultural performance, a "single" piece of a mosaic, therefore acquires different meanings in different constellation of pieces.