Japanese aesthetics and culture : a reader / edited by Nancy G. Hume.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hume, Nancy G., 1942- editor.

Series:

SUNY series in Asian studies development.

SUNY series in Asian studies development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics, Japanese.

Arts, Japanese--Philosophy.

Arts, Japanese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 378 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©1995.

Summary:

This anthology is intended to supplement courses in which Japanese aesthetics and culture are taught. The essays assume little background knowledge; they do represent seminal thought in literary, cultural, and aesthetic criticism, and are well known to scholars for their clarity and straightforward exposition, making them especially useful to the Westerner who does not speak Japanese.

Contents:

Japanese literature : four polarities / J. Thomas Rimer

Japanese aesthetics / Donald Keene

The vocabulary of Japanese aesthetics, I, II, III / Wm. Theodore De Bary

Ways of Japanese thinking / Graham Parkes

Feminine sensibility in the Heian era / Donald Keene

"Approach to Haiku" and "Basic principles" / Kenneth Yasuda

Bashō on the art of the Haiku : impersonality in poetry / Makoto Ueda

Zeami and the art of the nō drama : imitation, yūgen, and sublimity / Makoto Ueda

The social environment of Tokugawa Kabuki / Donald H. Shively

The wabi aesthetic through the ages / Haga Kōshirō

Bushidō : mode or ethic? / Roger T. Ames

Culture in the present age / H. Paul Varley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-367) and index.

ISBN:

0-585-05939-X