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Palgrave Macmillan
Language
English
Pages
260

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Subjects
Aesthetics, Japanese, Civilization, Impermanence (Buddhism), Japanese Aesthetics, Philosophy
Places
Japan

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Table of Contents

In spring the cherry blossoms
Change and nature
Japanese poetics and a first consideration of animism
Utsusemi, the Cicada's shell
Hakanasa and mujō
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 Bashō, 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 bushidō
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 (1970 to the present)
Fashion and the joy of evanescence
Postmodernism and a cherry blossom refrain
The end of the world
Nausicaa and the cicada-shell world
Seeking but never finding
Anima, anime, and animism.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-252) and index.

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Other Titles
Introduction to Japanese culture, Japanese culture

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Dewey Decimal Class
952
Library of Congress
DS821 .I569 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 260 p. :
Number of pages
260

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23092573M
Internet Archive
evanescenceformi00inou_566
ISBN 10
1403967059, 1403967067
ISBN 13
9781403967053, 9781403967060
LCCN
2008005344
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2646058
277999

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