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Long strange journey : on modern Zen, Zen art, and other predicaments

Tác giả: Gregory P. A. Levine

Long Strange Journey’s modern-contemporary emphasis sets it off from most writing on Zen art, which focuses on masterworks by premodern Chinese and Japanese artists, gushes over “timeless” visual qualities as indicative of metaphysical states, or promotes with ahistorical, trend-spotting flair Zen ...

Japan and the culture of the four seasons : nature, literature, and the arts

Tác giả: Haruo Shirane

It provides a compelling account of how Japan has appropriated, interpreted, and valued nature over the centuries. Haruo Shirane's wide-ranging study tracks the culture of nature in Japan and especially the central role of waka in constructing a vision of nature that influenced all the arts. In its ...

Aging and loss : mourning and maturity in contemporary Japan

Tác giả: Jason Danely

Part 1: Loss; Part 2: Mourning; Part 3: Abandonment and care; Part 4: Hope.

From Marco polo bridge to pearl harbor : who was responsible?

Tác giả: James E. Auer

Japan's Yomiuri newspaper has undertaken a bold project, the first of its kind in the Japanese intellectual community since the end of World War II. Yomiuri seriously probes the outbreak and prolongation of the wars of the Showa Era and examines the responsibility of many Japanese political leaders ...

Front cover image for a history of popular culture in Japan : from the seventeenth century to the present

Tác giả: Everett Taylor Atkins

Offering historiographical and analytical frameworks for understanding its subject, A History of Popular Culture in Japan synthesizes the latest scholarship from a variety of disciplines. It is a vital resource for students of Japanese cultural history wishing to gain a deeper understanding of ...