Shots in the dark : Japan, Zen, and the West /
880-01Yamada, Shōji,1963-
880-03Kokusai Nihon Bunka Kenkyū Sentā.
Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press ; Bristol : University Presses Marketing [distributor],
2011.
Originally published: 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-281) and index.
Between 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.
Herrigel, Eugen, 1884-1955.
Herrigel, Eugen, 1884-1955.
Zen Buddhism
Civilization, Western
Archery
Rock gardens, Japanese