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The Japanese sense of beauty / Takashina Shūji ; translated by Matt Treyvaud.
Van Pelt Library BH221.J3 T3513 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Takashina, Shūji, 1932-2024, author.
- 高階秀爾, 1932- author.
- Series:
- Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan)
- Japan library.
- Standardized Title:
- Nihonjin ni totte utsukushisa to wa nani ka. English
- 日本人にとって美しさとは何か. English
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Japanese.
- Philosophy.
- Arts, Japanese--Philosophy.
- Arts, Japanese.
- Aesthetics, Japanese.
- Art, Japanese--Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 16 color plates, 17-255 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- First English edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Tokyo : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2018.
- Language Note:
- Text in English.
- Summary:
- The Japanese sense of beauty is an important contribution to the study of aesthetics and cultural history, offering insights that will change the way you think about Japanese art.
- Contents:
- I. Word and image : the Japanese aesthetic consciousness
- The Kokin Wakashū and Japanese aesthetics
- The significance of Imperial Waka anthologies
- Cross the word-image border
- Sori : a plastic sensitivity
- European curve, Japanese Sori
- The plasticity of Hiragana
- Comparing Japanese and Western architecture
- What is a Torii?
- Closeness to nature in Japanese aesthetics
- The four seasons in Japanese painting
- Emoji, Moji-e, and play
- Word and image together
- Chriashigaki and Kaeshigaki
- The uniqueness of Chinese characters in Japan
- Word and image in handcraft design
- Fujiwara no Teika's aesthetics of rejection
- Ariwara no Narihira's "Eight Brides"
- Ono no Komachi's "Color of the Flowers"
- Word and image separated : text design in the West
- Word and image in comics
- Poems and pictures today
- II. Japanese beauty, Western beauty
- East meets West : forms of expression in Japanese and Western art
- The discovery of Japan's aesthetic consciousness
- The introduction of Western painting techniques to Japan
- Two forms of expression
- The aesthetics of omission and the close-up
- Contrasting principles
- Design in Japanese art
- The dawn of Japanese oil painting
- Sentiment and sensibility : beneath the surface of Wasei Yuga
- Japan and the West in the art of Takeuchi Seihō
- III. Roots of the Japanese aesthetic consciousness
- Word and image
- Chinese characters and the Japanese language
- The culture of name succession
- The aesthetics of the margin
- Postcards and place
- Gagaku without Gagaku
- Canonical beauty and situational beauty - Taikan and Fuji
- Whither Passing Spring?
- School songs and musical education
- Fukuzawa Yukichi, traditionalist
- Blossoms of devotion : Boshun, Buson, and the white plum
- Dragons, tigers, and museums
- Interpretation as transformation
- Interpretation as creative act
- Bridges and the Japanese
- The glittering vague
- Travel, east and west
- Tokyo Station and the culture of travel
- Robots and Japanese culture
- Mount Fuji as world cultural heritage.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in Japanese under the title of Nihonjin ni totte utsukushisa to wa nanika by Chikumashobo Ltd., in 2015"--title page verso.
- Includes new preface to English edition.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9784866580203
- 4866580208
- OCLC:
- 1030442817
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