The Origins of Cultural Difference: Sandplay Experiment Study With Brazilian and Japanese Children

Abstract

Adults' sandplay works gender, and cultural background releases archetypical spatial images. In this study, we will discuss when cultural difference appears and their significance. Sandplay experiments were realized with Japanese and Brazilian children and analyzed according to the direction, the position, and the order the toys were placed in the box, and how long the children played. Japanese children's sandplay works expressed a sense of unity with the surrounding world in contrast to Brazilian children's sandplay works that from an early age separate themselves from the world and had an autonomous tendency.