A history of modern Japanese aesthetics / translated and edited by Michael F. Marra.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marra, Michael F.

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics, Japanese--19th century.

Aesthetics, Japanese.

Aesthetics, Japanese--20th century.

Physical Description:

x, 398 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2001]

Summary:

This collection of essays, a companion volume to Modern Japanese Aesthetics, constitutes the first history of modern Japanese aesthetics in any language. It introduces readers through lucid and readable translations to works on the philosophy of art written by major Japanese thinkers from the late nineteenth century to the present.

Contents:

The Introduction of Aesthetics

1 Longing for "Beauty" / Saeki Junko 25

2 Japan as Art Museum: Okakura Tenshin and Fenollosa / Karatani Kojin 43

3 Fenollosa and Tsubouchi Shoyo / Kaneda Tamio 53

4 Mori Ogai and German Aesthetics / Bruno Lewin 68

Aesthetics at Waseda University

5 Onishi Hajime: Criticism and Aesthetics / Watanabe Kazuyasu 95

6 The Aesthetic Thought of Shimamura Hogetsu / Yamamoto Masao 106

7 The Aesthetician Takayama Chogyu / Watanabe Kazuyasu 114

8 The Aesthetics of Aizu Yaichi: Longing for the South / Kambayashi Tsunemichi 133

Aesthetics at the University of Tokyo

9 Biographies of Aestheticians: Otsuka Yasuji / Imamichi Tomonobu 151

10 The Aesthetic Thought of Onishi Yoshinori / Yamamoto Masao 164

11 Style in Japanese Aesthetics: Onishi Yoshinori / Sasaki Ken'ichi 175

12 Watsuji Tetsuro and His Perception of Japan / Koyasu Nobukuni 187

13 On the Aesthetics of Abe Jiro / Hijikata Teiichi 197

14 Aesthetics at the University of Tokyo after World War II / Imamichi Tomonobu 204

15 The Pliant Philosophy of Sakabe Megumi / Hirata Toshihiro 211

Aesthetics at the University of Kyoto

16 An Aesthetician from Kyoto: Nakagawa Shigeaki / Kaneda Tamio 225

17 The Thought and Times of Fukada Yasukazu / Yoshioka Kenjiro 238

18 Nishida Kitaro and Art / Iwaki Ken'ichi 259

19 The Logic of Visual Perception: Ueda Juzo / Iwaki Ken'ichi 285

20 Kuki Shuzo and the Phenomenology of Iki / Tanaka Kyubun 318

21 Aesthetics at the University of Kyoto after World War II / Iwaki Ken'ichi 345.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-391) and index.

ISBN:

0824823699

0824823990

OCLC:

44868973