Tea in Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tea in Japan write by Paul Varley. This book was released on 1995-01-01. Tea in Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Represents a major advance over previous publications.... Students will find this volume especially useful as an introduction to the primary sources, terminology, and dominant themes in the history of chanoyu." --Journal of Japanese Studies "Tea in Japan illuminates in depth and detail chanoyu's cultural connections and evolution from the early Kamakura period... It is the quality of seeing the familiar and not so familiar elements of tea emerge as a dynamic saga of human invention and cultural intervention that makes this book exhilarating and the details that the authors provide that make these essays fascinating." --Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese
Essays on Japan
Essays on Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Essays on Japan write by Michael Marra. This book was released on 2010-10-15. Essays on Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Essays on Japan is a compilation of Professor Michael F. Marra’s essays written in the past ten years on the topics of Japanese literature, Japanese aesthetics, and the space between the two subjects.
The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays
The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays write by Steven D. Carter. This book was released on 2014-10-21. The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A court lady of the Heian era, an early modern philologist, a novelist of the Meiji period, and a physicist at Tokyo University. What do they have in common, besides being Japanese? They all wrote zuihitsu—a uniquely Japanese literary genre encompassing features of the nonfiction or personal essay and miscellaneous musings. For sheer range of subject matter and breadth of perspective, the zuihitsu is unrivaled in the Japanese literary tradition, which may explain why few examples have been translated into English. The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays presents a representative selection of more than one hundred zuihitsu from a range of historical periods written by close to fifty authors—from well-known figures, such as Matsuo Basho, Natsume Soseki, and Koda Aya, to such writers as Tachibana Nankei and Dekune Tatsuro, whose works appear here for the first time in English. Writers speak on the experience of coming down with a cold, the aesthetics of tea, the physiology and psychology of laughter, the demands of old age, standards of morality, the way to raise children, the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, the thoughts that accompany sleeplessness, the anxiety of undergoing surgery, and the unexpected benefits of training a myna bird to say "Thank you." These essays also provide moving descriptions of snowy landscapes, foggy London, the famous cherry blossoms of Ueno Park, and the appeal of rainy vistas, and relate the joys and troubles of everyone from desperate samurai to filial children to ailing cats.
Medieval Japan
Medieval Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medieval Japan write by John Whitney Hall. This book was released on 1988. Medieval Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of essays tackles a neglected field of Japan's history.
New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics
New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics write by A. Minh Nguyen. This book was released on 2017-12-29. New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection presents twenty-seven new essays in Japanese aesthetics by leading experts in the field. Beginning with an extended foreword by the renowned scholar and artist Stephen Addiss and a comprehensive introduction that surveys the history of Japanese aesthetics and the ways in which it is similar to and different from Western aesthetics, this groundbreaking work brings together a large variety of disciplinary perspectives—including philosophy, literature, and cultural politics—to shed light on the artistic and aesthetic traditions of Japan and the central themes in Japanese art and aesthetics. Contributors explore topics from the philosophical groundings for Japanese aesthetics and the Japanese aesthetics of imperfection and insufficiency to the Japanese love of and respect for nature and the paradoxical ability of Japanese art and culture to absorb enormous amounts of foreign influence and yet maintain its own unique identity. New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics will appeal not only to a wide range of humanities scholars but also to graduate and undergraduate students of Japanese aesthetics, art, philosophy, literature, culture, and civilization. Masterfully articulating the contributors’ Japanese-aesthetical concerns and their application to Japanese arts (including literature, theater, film, drawing, painting, calligraphy, ceramics, crafts, music, fashion, comics, cooking, packaging, gardening, landscape architecture, flower arrangement, the martial arts, and the tea ceremony), these engaging and penetrating essays will also appealto nonacademic professionals and general audiences. This seminal work will be essential reading for anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of Japanese aesthetics.
