Screen LibraryEvanescence and form An introduction to Japanese culture /
This book explores the Japanese notion of hakanasa - the evanescence of all things. Responses to this idea have been various and even contradictory: asceticism, fatalism, conformism, hedonism, materialism, and careerism. This book examines the ties between an epistemology of constant change and Japa...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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This book explores the Japanese notion of hakanasa - the evanescence of all things. Responses to this idea have been various and even contradictory: asceticism, fatalism, conformism, hedonism, materialism, and careerism. This book examines the ties between an epistemology of constant change and Japan's formal emphasis on etiquette and visuality. "As I Read Charles Shiro Inouye's Evanescence and Form, a study of Japanese culture from its ancient beginnings to the present, I thought again and again how fortunate his students are to be guided by such an extraordinary teacher. He writes as he might address a class or perhaps a group of friends, using skill and wit to transmit in easy to understand language his exceptional knowledge of the culture of Japan and his perceptions of what makes it distinctive. This discussion of the role of evanescence is the religious life and arts of Japan is in every way outstanding." - Donald Keene, Shinc |
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Ebook. Originally published in: 2008. |
| Carrier Form: | 288 p. |
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9781403967053 9780230615489 : 0230615481 : |
| CLC: | C91 |
| Contents: | All Things Are Changing * Defining the Sacred * Flux and Identity * Leaving the World * Hedonism * Sacrifice * Fatalism * Work * Wrapping * Materialism * The Supremacy of Style * The Nature of Etiquette * Not One Space but Many * If There Were a Holy Book * Visual Nature * A World Where Nothing Is Special. |