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This collection begins with an engaging historical overview of Japanese aesthetics and offers contemporary multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives on the artistic and aesthetic traditions of Japan and the central themes in Japanese art and aesthetics.
List of contents
Foreword
Stephen Addiss
Preface
A. Minh Nguyen
Introduction: Historical Overview of Japanese Aesthetics
Yuriko Saito
Introduction: New Contributions to Japanese Aesthetics
A. Minh Nguyen
I: Japanese Aesthetics and Philosophy
1 A Philosophic Grounding for Japanese Aesthetics
Robert E. Carter
2 Cloud, Mist, Shadow, Shakuhachi: The Aesthetics of the Indistinct
David E. Cooper
3 Authority in Taste
Richard Bullen
4 Beauty as Ecstasy in the Aesthetics of Nishida and Schopenhauer
Steve Odin
5 Bodily Aesthetics and the Cultivation of Moral Virtues
Yuriko Saito
II: Japanese Aesthetics and Culture
6 Beyond Zeami: Innovating Mise en Sc¿ne in Contemporary N¿ Theatre Performance
C. Michael Rich
7 The Appreciative Paradox of Japanese Gardens
Allen Carlson
8 Savoring Tastes: Appreciating Food in Japan
Graham Parkes
9 Art of War, Art of Self: Aesthetic Cultivation in Japanese Martial Arts
James McRae
III: Japanese Aesthetics and Cultural Politics
10 Ainu Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art: Replication, Remembering, Recovery
Koji Yamasaki and Mara Miller
11 The Idea of Greece in Modern Japan's Cultural Dreams
Hiroshi Nara
12 Yashiro Yukio and the Aesthetics of Japanese Art History
J. Thomas Rimer
13 Aestheticizing Sacrifice: Ritual, Education, and Media during the Asia-Pacific War
Akiko Takenaka
14 Nagai Kaf¿ and the Aesthetics of Urban Strolling
Timothy Unverzagt Goddard
15 Cool-Kawaii Aesthetics and New World Modernity
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
IV: Japanese Aesthetics and Literature
16 Bash¿ and the Art of Eternal Now
Michiko Yusa
17 Knowing Elegance: The Ideals of the Bunjin (Literatus) in Early Modern Haikai
Cheryl Crowley
18 The Measure of Comparison: Correspondence and Collision in Japanese Aesthetics
Meera Viswanathan
19 On Kawabata, Kishida, and Barefoot Gen: Agency, Identity, and Aesthetic Experience in Post-Atomic Japanese Narrative
Mara Miller
20 Japanese Poetry and the Aesthetics of Disaster
Roy Starrs
V: Japanese Aesthetics and the Visual Arts
21 Inner Beauty: Kishida Ry¿sei's Concept of Realism and Pre-Modern Asian Aesthetics
Mikiko Hirayama
22 The Pan Real Art Association's Revolt against "the Beauties of Nature"
Matthew Larking
23 The Aesthetics of Emptiness in Japanese Calligraphy and Abstract Expressionism
John C. Maraldo
24 On Not Disturbing Still Water: Ozu Yasujir¿ and the Technical-Aesthetic Product
Jason M. Wirth
VI: The Legacy of Kuki Sh¿z¿
25 Finding Iki: Iki and the Floating World
David Bell
26 Iki and Glamour as Aesthetic Properties of Persons: Reflections in a Cross-Cultural Mirror
Carol Steinberg Gould
27 Scents and Sensibility: Kuki Sh¿z¿ and Olfactory Aesthetics
Peter Leech
Contributors
About the author
A. Minh Nguyen is professor of philosophy and Asian studies at Eastern Kentucky University.
Summary
This collection begins with an engaging historical overview of Japanese aesthetics and offers contemporary multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives on the artistic and aesthetic traditions of Japan and the central themes in Japanese art and aesthetics.
