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Evanescence and form : an introduction to Japanese culture
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- Creator
- Charles Shiro Inouye
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
- Physical Details
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- xv, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1282198807, 9786612198809, 1403967059, 1403967067, 9781403967060, 0230615481, 9781403967053
- OCLC
- ocn433076131, ocn191898195
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-252) and index.
- In spring the cherry blossoms -- Change and nature -- Japanese poetics and a first consideration of animism -- Utsusemi, the Cicada's shell -- Hakanasa and mujo -- Anitya in a world of spontaneity -- Life as it seems, Nagarjuna's emptiness -- Shukke: leaving the world -- Success and failure -- The transcendental order/the order of here-and-now -- Zen, kata, and the noh theater -- Hedonism -- Matsuo Basho, permanence and change -- Mono no aware, the sadness of things -- Protocol and loyal retainers -- Inner and outer: the expanding context of modernity -- Monstrosity -- Change under the transcendental order -- Late-modern Japan (1868-1970) -- The colonial context: adapt or die -- Explaining Japan-linking here-and-now with the new world order -- Japan as bushido -- Japan as tea-ism -- Japan as erotic style -- In the margins of empire-the rape of Nanking -- Other horrors of life on the margins -- Kamikaze -- The a-bomb, and a new kind of nothing -- Occupation: radical change as salvation -- Decadence, moving away from form -- To live! -- Nihil versus nothingness -- Higashiyama Kaii: embracing passivity -- Return to evanescence -- Contemporary Japan (since 1970) -- Fashion and the joy of evanescence