The Theory of Beauty in the Classical Aesthetics of Japan
The Japanese sense of beauty as actualized in innumerable works of art, both linguistic and non-linguistic, has often been spoken of as something strange to, and remote from, the Western taste. It is, in fact, so radically different from what in the West is ordinarily associated with aesthetic exper...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1981, 1981
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1981 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- One: Preliminary Essays
- I. The aesthetic structure of waka
- II. The metaphysical background of the theory of Noh: an analysis of Zeami’s ‘Nine Stages’
- III. The Way of tea: an art of spatial awareness
- IV. Haiku: an existential event
- Two: Texts, translated by Toshihiko and Toyo Izutsu
- I. Maigetsush?
- II. The Nine Stages
- III. ‘The Process of Training in the Nine Stages’ (Appendix to ‘The Nine Stages’)
- IV. Observations on the Disciplinary Way of Noh
- V. ollecting Gems and Obtaining Flowers
- VI. Record of Nanb?
- VII. The Red Booklet