Evanescence and form
Subtitle: an introduction to Japanese culture
By: Charles Shirō Inouye.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781403967053; 9781403967060
Subjects: Impermanence (Buddhism); Aesthetics, Japanese; Japan -- Civilization -- Philosophy
Other titles: Introduction to Japanese culture; Japanese culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-252) and index.
Table of contents: title: In spring the cherry blossoms; title: Change and nature; title: Japanese poetics and a first consideration of animism; title: Utsusemi, the Cicada's shell; title: Hakanasa and mujō; title: Anitya in a world of spontaneity; title: Life as it seems, Nagarjuna's emptiness; title: Shukke: leaving the world; title: Success and failure; title: The transcendental order/the order of here-and-now; title: Zen, kata, and the noh theater; title: Hedonism; title: Matsuo Bashō, permanence and change; title: Mono no aware, the sadness of things; title: Protocol and loyal retainers; title: Inner and outer: the expanding context of modernity; title: Monstrosity; title: Change under the transcendental order : late-modern Japan (1868-1970); title: The colonial context: adapt or die; title: Explaining Japan : linking here-and-now with the new world order; title: Japan as bushidō; title: Japan as tea-ism; title: Japan as erotic style; title: In the margins of empire-the rape of Nanking; title: Other horrors of life on the margins; title: Kamikaze; title: The a-bomb, and a new kind of nothing; title: Occupation: radical change as salvation; title: Decadence, moving away from form; title: To live!; title: Nihil versus nothingness; title: Higashiyama Kaii: embracing passivity; title: Return to evanescence; title: Contemporary Japan (1970 to the present); title: Fashion and the joy of evanescence; title: Postmodernism and a cherry blossom refrain; title: The end of the world; title: Nausicaa and the cicada-shell world; title: Seeking but never finding; title: Anima, anime, and animism.