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Circulating Collection, 3rd Floor / DS821 .I569 2008
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Author
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 Inouye, Charles ShirÅ.
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Title
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Evanescence and form : an introduction to Japanese culture / Charles Shiro Inouye.
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Edition
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1st ed.
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New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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Description
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xv, 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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SUNY Oswego
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-252) and index.
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Table of Contents
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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.
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Subject Headings
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Japan -- Civilization -- Philosophy.Impermanence (Buddhism)Aesthetics, Japanese.
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ISBN
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9781403967060 (pbk.) 1403967067 (pbk.) 9781403967053 1403967059
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000397067
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