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001 2008042071
003 DLC
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008 080925s2009 ilua b 001 0 eng c
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020 $a9780226947648 (cloth : alk. paper)
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041 1 $aeng$hjpn
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050 00 $aGV1188.J3$bY3313 2009
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082 00 $a799.3/2$222
100 1 $6880-01$aYamada, Shōji,$d1963-
240 10 $6880-02$aZen to iu na no Nihon Maru.$lEnglish
245 10 $aShots in the dark :$bJapan, Zen, and the West /$cShoji Yamada ; translated by Earl Hartman.
260 $aChicago ;$aLondon :$bThe University of Chicago Press ;$aKyoto :$bInternational Research Center for Japanese Studies,$c2009.
300 $aviii, 290 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aBuddhism and Modernity
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [271]-281) and index.
505 0 $aBetween the real and the fake -- The kitschy world of "Zen in/and the art of . . ." -- The rock garden in New York -- The moving borderline -- The mystery of Zen in the Art of Archery -- The beginning of the story -- Spiritual archery and Herrigel's meeting with its teacher -- Becoming a disciple -- Breathing -- The release -- Purposefulness and purposelessness -- The target in the dark -- The riddle of "It" -- Dissecting the myth -- The spread of Zen in the Art of Archery -- The moment the myth was born -- What is Japanese archery? -- The great doctrine of the way of shooting -- What Herrigel studied -- The erased history -- The blank slate -- Herrigel's early years -- The Japanese in Heidelberg -- Homecoming and the Nazis -- From the end of the war to retirement -- Are rock gardens really pretty? -- From the "tiger cubs crossing the river" to the "higher self" -- The neglected rock garden -- The rock garden in textbooks -- Unsightly stones and a weeping cherry tree -- Shiga Naoya and Murō Saisei -- Are rock gardens pretty? -- Popularization and the expression of Zen -- Proof of beauty -- Looking at the mirror's reflection -- Another Japan experience -- Bruno Taut and Ryōanji -- The people who introduced Zen and Ryōanji to the West -- Isamu Noguchi -- How Zen in the Art of Archery and Ryōanji were received -- Does Zen stink? -- Kyūdō, Zen, and the Olympics -- I knew it! it's Zen! -- Postscript -- Translator's afterword -- Appendix: Herrigel's "defense" -- Kanji for personal names -- Kanji for Japanese terms.
600 10 $aHerrigel, Eugen,$d1884-1955.$tZen in der Kunst des Bogenschiessens.
600 10 $aHerrigel, Eugen,$d1884-1955.
650 0 $aZen Buddhism$xStudy and teaching$zEurope.
650 0 $aCivilization, Western$y20th century$xJapanese influences.
650 0 $aArchery$zJapan$xReligious aspects.
651 0 $aRyōanji Teien (Kyoto, Japan)
650 0 $aRock gardens, Japanese$xReligious aspects.
710 2 $6880-03$aKokusai Nihon Bunka Kenkyū Sentā.
880 1 $6100-01/$1$a山田奨治,$d1963-
880 10 $6240-02/$1$a禅という名の日本丸.$lEnglish
880 2 $6710-03/$1$a国際日本文化研究センター.
830 0 $aNichibunken monograph series ;$vno. 10.