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The Japanese sense of beauty
Author
高階秀爾, 1932- author.
Uniform Title
Works. Selections. English
日本人にとって美しさとは何か. English
Title
The Japanese sense of beauty / Takashina Shūji ; translated by Matt Treyvaud = Nihonjin ni totte utsukushisa to wa nani ka / chosha Takashina Shūji ; yakusha Matto Toraivō.
The Japanese sense of beauty / Takashina Shūji ; translated by Matt Treyvaud = 日本人にとって美しさとは何か / 著者高階秀爾 ; 訳者マット・トライヴォー.
ISBN
9784866580203
4866580208
Edition
First English edition.
Publication
Tokyo : Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2018.
Copyright Notice Date
©2018
Physical Description
16 color plates, 17-255 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Notes
"Originally published in Japanese under the title of Nihonjin ni totte utsukushisa to wa nanika by Chikumashobo Ltd., in 2015"--title page verso.
Includes new preface to English edition.
Translated from the Japanese.
Summary
"What makes Japanese art unique? In The Japanese Sense of Beauty, art critic and historian Takashina Shūji reflects on the aesthetic and philosophical sensibilities underlying Japanese art throughout its history, from the earliest calligraphy and painted screens to modern masters like Hishida Shunso and Yokoyama Taikan. Along the way, Takashina explores themes such as the relationship between subjective perspective and "flat" composition and the playful intermingling of word and image throughout the plastic arts of Japan. He also offers fresh critical perspectives on many individual artists, including Takeuchi Seihō, one of the first to fuse traditional techniques with Western realism, and Takahashi Yuichi, who combined a vivid mastery of texture with deceptively traditionalist compositions. Other essays in this wide-ranging collection touch on everything from the symbolism of Mount Fuji to the ancient music known as gagaku, showing how even the most disparate topics can shed new light on what is essential to Japanese culture. The Japanese Sense of Beauty is an important contribution to the study of aesthetics and cultural history, offering insights that will change the way you think about Japanese art." -- Publisher's description.
Variant and related titles
Japanese title in colophon: Nihonjin ni totte utsukushisa to wa nani ka
Japanese title in colophon: 日本人にとって美しさとは何か
Translation of
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 29, 2018
Series
Japan library
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
I. Word and image : the Japanese aesthetic consciousness
The Kokin Wakashū and Japanese aesthetics
The significance of Imperial Waka anthologies
Cross the word-image border
Sori : a plastic sensitivity
European curves, Japanese Sori
The plasticity of Hiragana
Comparing Japanese and Western architecture
What is a Torii?
Closeness to nature in Japanese aesthetics
The four seasons in Japanese painting
Emoji, Moji-e, and play
Word and image together
Chirashigaki and Kaeshigaki
The uniqueness of Chinese characters in Japan
Word and image in handcraft design
Fujiwara no Teika's aesthetics of rejection
Ariwara no Narihira's "Eight Bridges"
Ono no Komachi's "Color of the Flowers"
Word and image separated : text design in the West
Word and image in comics
Poems and pictures today
II. Japanese beauty, Western beauty
East meets West : forms of expression in Japanese and Western art
The discovery of Japan's aesthetic consciousness
The introduction of Western painting techniques to Japan
Two forms of expression
The aesthetics of omission and the close-up
Contrasting principles
Design in Japanese art
The dawn of Japanese oil painting
Sentiment and sensibility : beneath the surface of Wasei Yuga
Japan and the West in the art of Takeuchi Seihō
III. Roots of the Japanese aesthetic consciousness
Word and image
Chinese characters and the Japanese language
The culture of name succession
The aesthetics of the margin
Postcards and place
Gagaku without Gagaku
Canonical beauty and situational beauty
Taikan and Fuji
Whither Passing Spring?
School songs and musical education
Fukuzawa Yukichi, traditionalist
Blossoms of devotion : Goshun, Buson, and the white plum
Dragons, tigers, and museums
Interpretation as transformation
Interpretation as creative act
Bridges and the Japanese
The glittering vague
Travel, east and west
Tokyo Station and the culture of travel
Robots and Japanese culture
Mount Fuji as world cultural heritage.
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