Shots in the dark
Subtitle: Japan, Zen, and the West
By: Shoji Yamada ; translated by Earl Hartman.
Contributors: Kokusai Nihon Bunka Kenkyū Sentā.
Series: Nichibunken monograph series -- no. 10; Nichibunken monograph series -- no. 10.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; International Research Center for Japanese Studies
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London; Kyoto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780226947648
Subjects: Herrigel, Eugen, -- 1884-1955. -- Influence; Herrigel, Eugen, -- 1884-1955 -- Criticism and interpretation; Zen Buddhism -- Study and teaching -- Europe; Civilization, Western -- 20th century -- Japanese influences; Archery -- Japan -- Religious aspects; Rock gardens, Japanese -- Religious aspects; Ryōanji Teien (Kyoto, Japan)
Work titles: Zen to iu na no Nihon Maru.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Between the real and the fake; title: The kitschy world of "Zen in/and the art of . . ."; title: The rock garden in New York; title: The moving borderline; title: The mystery of Zen in the Art of Archery; title: The beginning of the story; title: Spiritual archery and Herrigel's meeting with its teacher; title: Becoming a disciple; title: Breathing; title: The release; title: Purposefulness and purposelessness; title: The target in the dark; title: The riddle of "It"; title: Dissecting the myth; title: The spread of Zen in the Art of Archery; title: The moment the myth was born; title: What is Japanese archery?; title: The great doctrine of the way of shooting; title: What Herrigel studied; title: The erased history; title: The blank slate; title: Herrigel's early years; title: The Japanese in Heidelberg; title: Homecoming and the Nazis; title: From the end of the war to retirement; title: Are rock gardens really pretty?; title: From the "tiger cubs crossing the river" to the "higher self"; title: The neglected rock garden; title: The rock garden in textbooks; title: Unsightly stones and a weeping cherry tree; title: Shiga Naoya and Murō Saisei; title: Are rock gardens pretty?; title: Popularization and the expression of Zen; title: Proof of beauty; title: Looking at the mirror's reflection; title: Another Japan experience; title: Bruno Taut and Ryōanji; title: The people who introduced Zen and Ryōanji to the West; title: Isamu Noguchi; title: How Zen in the Art of Archery and Ryōanji were received; title: Does Zen stink?; title: Kyūdō, Zen, and the Olympics; title: I knew it! it's Zen!; title: Postscript; title: Translator's afterword; title: Appendix: Herrigel's "defense"; title: Kanji for personal names; title: Kanji for Japanese terms.