New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics ed. by A. Minh Nguyen

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 294-299
Author(s):  
Thomas P. Kasulis
Keyword(s):  
Japanese Aesthetics

Jiki-fu: A Japanese Aesthetics of Taste

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-284
Author(s):  
Rebecca Corbett
Keyword(s):  
Japanese Aesthetics

The Poetics of Consolation: Japanese Aesthetics and American Incarceration

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 565-580
Author(s):  
Josephine Nock-Hee Park
Keyword(s):  
Japanese Aesthetics

Whitehead and Japanese Aesthetics

1991 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-37
Author(s):  
Arlene M. Mayeda ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Japanese Aesthetics

Crossing Cultural and Aesthetic Frontiers: Yves Bonnefoy and the Dynamics of Haiku

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-40
Author(s):  
Pamela A. Genova
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
Japanese Aesthetics ◽  
The World ◽  
Third Dimension ◽  
Mind's Eye ◽  
East West ◽  
Yves Bonnefoy

Ever since the opening of the ports of Japan to the West in 1854, French authors have participated in a fruitful dialogue of East-West exchange, to which the work of Yves Bonnefoy adds an engaging dimension. Bonnefoy, who reads Japanese and has spent time in Japan, has carried on throughout his career an equivocal relationship with Japanese aesthetics, especially notable in his complex views on haiku. Early on, Bonnefoy critiqued the form as a hollow discursive structure inattentive to the crucial referential relationship between art and world that he underscored in his own work as primary. Yet, interestingly, critics have described similarities between Bonnefoy's poetry and Japanese haiku, and indeed Bonnefoy later recanted his negative critique of the form. In the 1989 essay, 'Du haïku', he argues in fact that haiku embodies pure presence, expressing a kind of third dimension, situating itself in the space of the world and in the mind's eye, as it communicates the plenitude of being.

On Donald Keene's "Japanese Aesthetics"

1969 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 310
Author(s):  
Harold E. McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Japanese Aesthetics

scholarly journals Japanese Aesthetics and English Education in the Global Age

2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuko Kurihara
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
English Education ◽  
American English ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Global Age ◽  
Japanese Aesthetics ◽  
Global World ◽  
Intellectual Activities ◽  
Japanese Youth ◽  
English Education In Japan

With the advent of the global information age, Japanese youth today are required to have authentic abilities to communicate with different peoples from different countries in the English language, rather than simply a good knowledge of practical and functional American English. Affective learners of English are created through aesthetic reading, especially English poetry, when moved or inspired by the authenticity of the content implying the profound but subtle meaning of human emotion in life. In this sense, the way of affective and aesthetic English learning follows the traditional Japanese appreciation of ephemeral beauty. As an authentic incentive to intellectual activities, this sensitivity leads to a deep, accurate, and rapid understanding of different peoples in the global world. American English education in Japan therefore should be aimed at a broader goal of English as a shared language for Internet-based communication, fostering a greater sense of traditional Japanese beauty for a more affective English-learner in the global community. Avec l’avènement de l’ère de la mondialisation, la jeunesse japonaise d’aujourd’hui est tenue d’avoir des capacités authentiques afin de communiquer avec différents peuples de différents pays dans la langue anglaise, plutôt que de simplement avoir une bonne connaissance, pratique et fonctionnelle, de l’anglais américain. Des apprenants affectifs de l’anglais sont stimulés par la lecture esthétique, particulièrement la poésie anglaise, lorsqu’ils sont émus ou inspirés par l’authenticité du contexte impliquant la signification profonde mais subtile de l’émotion humaine dans la vie. Dans ce sens, la manière affective et esthétique de l’apprentissage anglaise suit l’appréciation japonaise traditionnelle de la beauté éphémère. Comme incitation authentique aux activités intellectuelles, cette sensibilité mène à une compréhension profonde, précise et rapide de différents peuples dans le monde globalisé. L’éducation de l’anglais américain devrait alors viser à un objectif plus général de l’anglais non seulement comme langue partagée pour la communication par Internet, mais aussi favorisant un plus grand sens de beauté traditionnelle japonaise afin de produire des apprenants affectifs dans la communauté globale.

scholarly journals Poetics of Narrative in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Novel “A Pale View of Hills”

2019 ◽  
pp. 57-64
Author(s):  
Yaryna Oprisnyk
Keyword(s):  
Current Paper ◽  
First Person ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Verbal Expression ◽  
Verbal Language ◽  
Japanese Aesthetics ◽  
Narrative Techniques

The current paper explores the narrative strategies and poetics of intermediality in Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel “A Pale View of Hills” (1982). Particular attention is paid to the notions of narrative unreliability and subjectivity exemplified by the ambiguous first-person narrative in the novel. The researcher focuses on the narrative techniques, as well as on the numerous lexical and other literary means that emphasize the unreliability of the narrator, who is also the protagonist. It allows revealing the hidden emotions and tendency to self-deceit. In addition, the paper traces the features of Japanese aesthetics and literature in the novel. The most peculiar among them are concise verbal expression, lack of emotion, and audiovisuality, which is primary concentration of the narrative on the visual and auditory images, rather than on the characters’ internal psychological processes. A range of narrative strategies and special literary effects in “A Pale View of Hills”, being characteristic for the art of cinematography, make the novel a vivid example of the cinematographic (cinematic) literature, which requires a different, more image-oriented perception of the reader. Among such techniques, the most notable are the enhanced symbolism of sensual images; revealing the characters’ actual feelings and thoughts through their non-verbal language and dialogues; fragmented and elliptic nature of the narrative that resembles the technique of montage; and the plasticity of chronotope, which is represented by the active use of flashbacks in the novel.

scholarly journals Wierzenia z perspektywy estetyki japońskiej. Mushishi Yuki Urushibary

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 93-107
Author(s):  
Natalia Dmitruk
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Japanese Literature ◽  
Japanese Culture ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Japanese Aesthetics ◽  
Human And Nature

Religious beliefs from the perspectiveb of Japanese aesthetics: Mushishi by Yuki UrushibaraThe Japanese culture is often portrayed as unique, in particular when compared to broadly-understood Western culture. It is important to notice, however, that the main trait of the Japanese culture is its openness towards outside influences and the ability to modify them to fit better with the Japanese system of values. The same could be applied to the Japanese aesthetics, which concernsm various aspects of life, not only the ones that would be described as art in Western culture. The contemporary Japanese culture and the aesthetics along with it is occasionally a  combination of tradition and modern ideas; the works of popular culture, which includes comics and animation, may hold the most interesting cases in that regard. This article describes the issues of the Japanese aesthetics in Mushishi, a  comic book by Yuki Urushibara. The author, while inspired by the classical works of Japanese literature and legendary tales, presents her own stories, in which the primary aesthetic value is the harmony between human and nature, sometimes represented by the supernatural beings known as mushi.

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