Evanescence and form : an introduction to Japanese culture / Charles Shiro Inouye
- Bib ID:
- 4266969
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Inouye, Charles Shirō
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- Description:
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- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
- xv, 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1403967059
- Full contents:
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- In spring the cherry blossoms
- Change and nature
- Japanese poetics and a first consideration of animism
- Utsusemi, the Cicada's shell
- Hakanasa and mujo
- Anitya in a world of spontaneity
- Life as it seems, Nagarjuna's emptiness
- Shukke: leaving the world
- Success and failure
- The transcendental order/the order of here-and-now
- Zen, kata, and the noh theater
- Hedonism
- Matsuo Basho, permanence and change
- Mono no aware, the sadness of things
- Protocol and loyal retainers
- Inner and outer: the expanding context of modernity
- Monstrosity
- Change under the transcendental order
- Late-modern Japan (1868-1970)
- The colonial context: adapt or die
- Explaining Japan-linking here-and-now with the new world order
- Japan as bushido
- Japan as tea-ism
- Japan as erotic style
- In the margins of empire-the rape of Nanking
- Other horrors of life on the margins
- Kamikaze
- The a-bomb, and a new kind of nothing
- Occupation: radical change as salvation
- Decadence, moving away from form
- To live!
- Nihil versus nothingness
- Higashiyama Kaii: embracing passivity
- Return to evanescence
- Contemporary Japan (since 1970)
- Fashion and the joy of evanescence.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-252) and index.
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