Tsuji Jun: Japanese Dadaist, Anarchist, Philosopher, Monk
Publisher: University of Arizona
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Tucson, USA
Format: Thesis
Number of pages: 118
Copyright date: 2010
First sentence: Tsuji Jun (1884 – 1944) was the self­declared first Dadaist of Japan and was the most prominent advocate of literary Dada there.
Table of contents: title: ABSTRACT ................................................................... 7; title: I. INTRODUCTION: ABOUT THIS WORK; title: Significance, Purpose, Avenues for Future Research ... 8; title: A Necessarily Interdisciplinary Approach ................... 11; title: Problems With this Research ...................................... 13; title: The Gleitende Focus and Key Terms .......................... 14; title: II. THE LIFE OF TSUJI JUN; title: A Life History ............................................................. 19; title: To Write in an Increasingly Oppressive Climate ........ 26; title: Personality & Lifestyle ................................................ 28; title: From “Tsuji Jun and the Teachings of the Unmensch”. 31; title: III. BACKGROUND & CONTEXT; title: An Overview of Pre­War Japanese Anarchism............ 33; title: On Nihilism in Japan .................................................. 38; title: Egoism as a Form of Nihilism ................................. 38; title: Relation to Darwinism ............................................ 39; title: Stirnerism in a Nutshell .............................................. 44; title: On Dada in Japan ........................................................ 47; title: Dada's Relation to Ero Guro Nansensu ................... 505; title: TABLE OF CONTENTS ­ Continued; title: Contemporaries of Tsuji Jun ..................................... 51; title: Mavo ..................................................................... 51; title: Yoshiyuki Eisuke ................................................... 52; title: Hagiwara Kyōjirō ................................................... 53; title: Takahashi Shinkichi ............................................... 55; title: Kaneko Fumiko ...................................................... 56; title: Ōsugi Sakae and Itō Noe ...................................... 57; title: IV. DADA AS A REFLECTION OF DAS GLEITENDE; title: Rationalism in Austria, Meiji Japan ........................... 60; title: Das Gleitende Outside of Vienna ................................ 65; title: V. THE DADA CONNECTION; title: Dada: Tsuji's Philosophical Nexus .............................. 68; title: Art as a Social and Political Medium ........................ 70; title: The Private as Public and Living Life as an Artform.. 75; title: Dada, Stirnerism, & Buddhist Nothingness ............... 78; title: VI. THE WORK OF TSUJI JUN; title: Tsuji's Translations and Literary Influences .............. 85; title: Tsuji's Self­Perception ............................................. 88; title: Poetry Sample: “Absurd” ........................................... 916; title: TABLE OF CONTENTS ­ Continued; title: Tsuji's Dadaism, Takahashi's Dadaism ................. 96; title: Reception ................................................................... 96; title: VII. CONCLUSION; title: Tsuji Jun in the late 20 th and early 21 st Century ......... 99; title: Hope versus Despair ................................................. 101; title: APPENDIX I: MAJOR TRANSLATIONS ................... 104; title: APPENDIX II: SUPPORTING LITERATURE ............ 105; title: Secondary Literature .................................................. 105; title: Works by Tsuji ........................................................... 107; title: A Three Piece Sample of Japanese Works on Tsuji .... 108; title: REFERENCES .............................................................. 111