num_pages: 80
description: This provocative book is a tractate—a treatise—on beauty in Japanese art, written in the manner of a zuihitsu, a free-ranging assortment of ideas that “follow the brush” wherever it leads. Donald Richie looks at how perceptual values in Japan were drawn from raw nature and then modified by elegant expressions of class and taste. He explains aesthetic concepts like wabi, sabi, aware, and yugen, and ponders their relevance in art and cinema today.Donald Richie is the foremost explorer of Japanese culture in English, and this work is the culmination of sixty years of observing and writing from his home in Tokyo.
language: English
title: A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics
titlecomplete: A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics
genres: Cultural, Art History, Asia, Philosophy, Japan, Nonfiction, Japanese Literature, Essays, Design, Art
ratings_count: 354
publisher: Stone Bridge Press