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.

• Cover
• Praise for New Essays in
• New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics
• New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Foreword
  • NATURE
  • ASSIMILATION
  • CONCLUSION
  • NOTES
• Preface
• Introduction
  • HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF JAPANESE AESTHETICS Yuriko Saito
  • AESTHETIC EGALITARIANISM
  • THE AESTHETICS OF IMPLICATION, SUGGESTION, IMPERFECTION
  • RESPECT FOR THE ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE OBJECT
  • SINCERITY AND DEVOTION AS CRITERIA FOR INTENTIONALIST CRITICISM
  • RECENT SCHOLARSHIP ON JAPANESE AESTHETICS
  • THE CHALLENGE TO WESTERN AESTHETICS
  • REFERENCES Primary Sources
  • Secondary Sources
  • NEW CONTRIBUTIONS TO JAPANESE AESTHETICS A. Minh Nguyen et al.
  • JAPANESE AESTHETICS AND PHILOSOPHY
  • JAPANESE AESTHETICS AND CULTURE
  • JAPANESE AESTHETICS AND CULTURAL POLITICS
  • JAPANESE AESTHETICS AND LITERATURE
  • JAPANESE AESTHETICS AND THE VISUAL ARTS
  • THE LEGACY OF KUKI SHŪZŌ
  • NOTES
• Part I
• JAPANESE AESTHETICS AND PHILOSOPHY
• Chapter 1
• A Philosophic Grounding for Japanese Aesthetics
  • YANAGI SŌETSU
  • NISHIDA KITARŌ AND NISHITANI KEIJI
  • MASUNO SHUNMYO’S LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
  • CONCLUSION
  • NOTES
• Chapter 2
• Cloud, Mist, Shadow,
  • THE INDISTINCT
  • A JAPANESE SENSIBILITY?
  • THE INDISTINCT IN JAPANESE AESTHETICS
  • INTERFUSION AND EMERGENCE
  • NOTES
• Chapter 3
• Authority in Taste
  • HUME’S STANDARD OF TASTE
  • STANDARDS OF THE MASTERS
  • AND STANDARDS
  • MORAL AND AESTHETIC STANDARDS
  • NOTES
• Chapter 4
• Beauty as Ecstasy in the Aesthetics of Nishida and Schopenhauer
  • INTRODUCTION
  • NISHIDA’S EARLY CONCEPT OF BEAUTY
  • SCHOPENHAUER’S INFLUENCE ON NISHIDA
  • NISHIDA, SCHOPENHAUER, AND WANG GUOWEI ON BEAUTY
  • NISHIDA ON ART, MORALITY, AND RELIGION AS DEGREES OF ECSTASY
  • NISHIDA AND SCHOPENHAUER ON ECSTASY IN ART AND RELIGION
  • ECSTASY OF ART, MORALITY, AND RELIGION AS “BETTER CONSCIOUSNESS”
  • SCHOPENHAUER’S AESTHETIC ECSTASY AND BUDDHIST MEDITATION
  • CONCLUSION
  • NOTES
• Chapter 5
• Bodily Aesthetics and the Cultivation of Moral Virtues
  • AESTHETICS AND MORAL VIRTUES
  • JAPANESE AESTHETICS AND CULTIVATION OF MORAL VIRTUES
  • AESTHETIC CULTIVATION OF VIRTUES AND GOOD SOCIETY
  • NOTES
• Part II
• JAPANESE AESTHETICS AND CULTURE
• Chapter 6
• Beyond Zeami
  • INTRODUCTION
  • TRADITIONAL DEPLOYMENT OF
  • IN NŌ THEATRE
  • INTERPENETRATION WITH OTHER MEDIA AND ARTISTIC TRADITIONS
  • CONCLUSION
  • NOTES
• Chapter 7
• The Appreciative Paradox of Japanese Gardens
  • INTRODUCTION
  • DIFFICULT APPRECIATION AND DIALECTICAL RELATIONSHIPS
  • JAPANESE GARDENS AS DIALECTICAL RELATIONSHIPS
  • THE APPRECIATIVE PARADOX OF JAPANESE GARDENS
  • APPRECIATION OF THE NATURAL AND THE ARTIFICIAL
  • A LOOK OF INEVITABILITY
  • A PROBLEM WITH JUDGMENT
  • CONCLUSION
  • NOTES
• Chapter 8
• Savoring Tastes
  • TASTEFUL COMBINATIONS
  • PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS
  • NOTES
• Chapter 9
• Art of War, Art of Self
  • INTRODUCTION
  • JOHN DEWEY’S AESTHETIC OF EXPERIENCE
  • THE CULTIVATION OF AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE IN JAPANESE MARTIAL ARTS
  • JAPANESE MARTIAL ARTS AS PERFORMANCE ART
  • UNDERSTANDING SPACE:
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  • CONCLUSION
  • NOTES
• Part III
• JAPANESE AESTHETICS AND CULTURAL POLITICS
• Chapter 10
• Ainu Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art
  • PROLOGUE: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AINU AND JAPANESE AESTHETICS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • DESCRIPTIVE AESTHETICS
  • Materials and Techniques
  • LEARNING FROM LANGUAGE, THE BODY, AND OBJECTS
  • Recovering Indigenous Aesthetics by Means of Replication
  • Ainu Aesthetics
  • IMPLICATIONS OF THESE AESTHETICS FOR LIFE AND MUSEUM PRACTICE
  • Daily Life, Ethnic and Personal Identity
  • Artistic Practice
  • Museum Practice
  • CONCLUSION: THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
• Chapter 11
• The Idea of Greece in Modern Japan’s Cultural Dreams
  • INTRODUCTION
  • A FASCINATION WITH GREECE
  • GREECE IN THE SERVICE OF AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE
  • THE NATURE OF AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE
  • NOTES
• Chapter 12
• Yashiro Yukio and the Aesthetics of Japanese Art History
  • NOTES
• Chapter 13
• Aestheticizing Sacrifice
  • KŌKYOMAE HIROBA: RITUAL AND BEAUTIFUL LABOR
  • EDUCATION AND THE MANUFACTURING OF DESIRE
  • YASUKUNI SHRINE: MEDIA AND THE DESIRE FOR WAR DEATH
  • CONCLUSION
  • NOTES
• Chapter 14
• Nagai Kafū and the Aesthetics of Urban Strolling
  • INTRODUCTION
  • KAFŪ,
  • AND THE CITY OF WATER
  • THE CITY REMEMBERED AND REIMAGINED
  • “LET’S WALK THE BACKSTREETS, LET’S STROLL THE SIDE STREETS”
  • KAFŪ’S
  • CONCLUSION
  • NOTES
• Chapter 15
• Cool-Kawaii Aesthetics and New World Modernity
  • COOL
  • KAWAII
  • COOL AND KAWAII
  • SIMILAR SOCIAL CONDITIONS
  • ALIENATION
  • NEW WORLD MODERNITY
  • TOWARD A COOL-KAWAII MODERNITY
  • CONCLUSION
  • NOTES
• Part IV
• JAPANESE AESTHETICS AND LITERATURE
• Chapter 16
• Bashō and the Art of Eternal Now
  • INTRODUCTION
  • NEW YET ENDURING QUALITIES OF A POPULAR ART
  • ZEN PRACTICE AND BASHŌ’S MEDITATION ON TEMPORALITY
  • NISHIDA ON THE SHORT POETIC FORM
  • IMPERMANENCE, “FRESH” MOMENTS, AND BEAUTY
  • EXPRESSION IN A VERSE: THE MOMENT OF PURE EXPERIENCE
  • DESCRIPTION IN A PROSE: CAPTURING THE EXPERIENCE FROM OUTSIDE
  • TEXT READING AND APPRECIATION:
  • CONCLUSION
  • NOTES
• Chapter 17
• Knowing Elegance
  • HAIKAI LITERATI
  • A RESOLUTION
  • BASHŌ’S
  • THE VIRTUE OF POETRY
  • THE EVERYDAY, AT A DISTANCE
  • BUSON’S
  • NOTES
• Chapter 18
• The Measure of Comparison
  • FROM REENACTING TO REACTING TO RESISTING
  • AND
  • HEIAN SIMILITUDE:
  • EDO DISSONANCE AND DISCORDANCE:
  • AND
  • NOTES
• Chapter 19
• On Kawabata, Kishida, and
  • INTRODUCTION
  • THE DIFFERENCES AMONG THE THREE WORKS
  • AESTHETIC DIFFERENCES REGARDING VAGUENESS
  • AESTHETIC SIMILARITIES
  • SIMILARITIES REGARDING AGENCY
  • MODERNISM AND TRADITIONALISM IN THE THREE WORKS
  • AESTHETICS, CONSCIOUSNESS, AND INDIVIDUAL AGENCY
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
• Chapter 20
• Japanese Poetry and the Aesthetics of Disaster
  • NOTES
• Part V
• JAPANESE AESTHETICS AND THE VISUAL ARTS
• Chapter 21
• Inner Beauty
  • BIOGRAPHY
  • “REALISM” IN PREMODERN CHINESE AND JAPANESE ART THEORY
  • KISHIDA RYŪSEI’S THEORY OF REALISM
  • INNER BEAUTY AS THE BASIS OF ART
  • THREE WAYS IN WHICH INNER BEAUTY WAS EXPRESSED IN ART
  • THE “LACK OF REALISM” THEORY (1922)
  • KISHIDA’S VIEW OF REALISM IN THE PAINTINGS FROM THE SONG AND YUAN DYNASTIES
  • CONCLUSION
  • NOTES
• Chapter 22
• The Pan Real Art Association’s Revolt against “the Beauties of Nature”
  • INTRODUCTION
  • THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE
  • FORMATION OF THE PAN REAL ART ASSOCIATION
  • PICTORIAL PROPOSITIONS FOR A NEW POSTWAR
  • COLLUDING CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT
  • NOTES
• Chapter 23
• The Aesthetics of Emptiness in Japanese Calligraphy and Abstract Expressionism
  • NISHITANI’S AESTHETICS OF SENSORY EMPTINESS AND JAPANESE CALLIGRAPHIC ART
  • AVOIDING ORIENTALISM BUT PRESERVING EMPTINESS: THE SPACE OF CONTENTION BETWEEN JAPANESE CALLIGRAPHIC ART AND ABSTRACT EXPRESSION
  • CONCLUSION
  • NOTES
• Chapter 24
• On Not Disturbing Still Water
  • NOTES
• Part VI
• THE LEGACY OF KUKI SHŪZŌ
• Chapter 25
• Finding
  • AND THE FLOATING WORLD
  • IN
  • FOUR MOMENTS IN THE FLOATING WORLD
  • LOCATING
  • Iki
  • Iki
  • Iki
  • Iki
  • Ukiyo-e
  • CONCLUSION
  • NOTES
• Chapter 26
• and Glamour as Aesthetic Properties of Persons
  • BACKGROUND TO KUKI’S
  • GROUNDWORK: AESTHETICS OF PERSONS
  • AND SEXUALITY
  • KUKI ON
  • AND GLAMOUR: JAPANESE AND WESTERN AESTHETICS
  • CONCLUSION
  • NOTES
• Chapter 27
• Scents and Sensibility
  • THE SCENTS OF KUKI
  • KUKI, KANT,
  • THE CONTINGENT AND THE AESTHETIC
  • CONCLUSION
  • NOTES
• Selected Bibliography
• Index
• Contributors
• About the Editor