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13 of the Best Books and Articles on: Japanese Aesthetics

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1.

Modern Japanese Aesthetics: A Reader » Read Now
by Michele Marra. 322 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

This is the first work in English on the history of the Japanese philosophy of art, from its inception in the 1870s to the present.
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Japanese Aesthetics and Culture: A Reader » Read Now
by Nancy G. Hume. 378 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library
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The Aesthetics of Discontent: Politics and Reclusion in Medieval Japanese Literature » Read Now
by Michele Marra. 222 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Literature, Entire Library
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On the Laws of Japanese Painting: An Introduction to the Study of the Art of Japan (Chap. Five "Canons of the Aesthetics of Japanese Painting") » Read Now
by Henry P. Bowie. 120 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library
5.

Rethinking Identity in Modern Japan: Nationalism as Aesthetics » Read Now
by Yumiko Iida. 328 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, History, Entire Library

Examining the creative and academic works of a number of influential Japanese thinkers, this volume is a major reconsideration of Japanese late modernity and national hegemony.
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Art, Life and Nature in Japan » Read Now
by Masaharu Anesaki. 182 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library
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The 1909 Ryuto and the Aesthetics of Affectivity, in Art Journal » Read Now
by Miriam Wattles. 9 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library
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Greek Hero and Japanese Samurai: Mishima's New Aesthetic, in Critique » Read Now
by Gwenn R. Boardman. 13 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library
9.

Japonisme: East-West Renaissance in the Late 19th Century, in Mosaic (Winnipeg) » Read Now
by Yoko Chiba. 20 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library
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Rice as Self: Japanese Identities through Time (Chap. Five "Rice as Wealth, Power, and Aesthetics") » Read Now
by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney. 184 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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Wrapping Culture: Politeness, Presentation, and Power in Japan and Other Societies » Read Now
by Joy Hendry. 208 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Wrapping Culture examines problems of intercultural communication and the possibilities for misinterpretation of the familiar in an unfamiliar context. Starting with an examination of Japanese gift-wrapping, Joy Hendry demonstrates how our expectations are often influenced by cultural factors which...
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Wrapping Culture examines problems of intercultural communication and the possibilities for misinterpretation of the familiar in an unfamiliar context. Starting with an examination of Japanese gift-wrapping, Joy Hendry demonstrates how our expectations are often influenced by cultural factors which may blind us to an appreciation of underlying intent. She extends this approach to the study of polite language as the wrapping of thoughts and intentions, garments as body wrappings, constructions and gardens as wrapping of space. Hendry shows how this extends even to the ways in which people may be wrapped in seating arrangements, or meetings and drinking customs may be constrained by temporal versions of wrapping. Throughout the book, Hendry considers ways in which groups of people use such symbolic forms to impress and manipulate one another, and points out a Western tendency to underestimate such nonverbal communication, or reject it as mere decoration. She presents ideas that should be valid in any intercultural encounter and demonstrates that Japanese culture, so often thought of as a special case, can supply a model through which we can formulate general theories about human behaviour.
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Evolution of the Japanese: A Study of Their Characteristics in Relation to the Principles of Social and Psychic Development (Chap. XV "Aesthetic Characteristics") » Read Now
by Sidney L. Gulick. 466 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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Japanese Theatre (Chap. V "The Esthetics of Kabuki") » Read Now
by Faubion Bowers. 295 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library