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A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics
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Ideal for readers interested in Japanese culture, art enthusiasts, and those curious about traditional aesthetic philosophy.
Sure to be a classic, Donald Richie's concise, profound insights into the mysteries of Japanese
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Sure to be a classic, Donald Richie's concise, profound insights into the mysteries of Japanese Aesthetics.
This provocative book is a tractate—a treatise—on beauty in Japanese art, written in the manner of a zuihitsu, a free-ranging assortment of ideas that "follow the brush" wherever it leads. Donald Richie looks at how perceptual values in Japan were drawn from raw nature and then modified by elegant expressions of class and taste. He explains aesthetic concepts like wabi, sabi, aware, and yugen, and ponders their relevance in art and cinema today.
Donald Richie is the foremost explorer of Japanese culture in English, and this work is the culmination of sixty years of observing and writing from his home in Tokyo.
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ISBN: 9781933330235
Publisher: Stone Bridge Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 19 July 2007
Country: United States
Imprint: Stone Bridge Press
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 7.0mm
Width: 127.0mm
Height: 172.0mm
Weight: 85g
Pages: 80
About the Author
Donald Richie has been writing about Japan for over 50 years from his base in Tokyo and is the author of over 40 books and hundreds of essays and reviews. He is widely admired for his incisive film studies on Ozu and Kurosawa, and for his stylish and incisive observations on Japanese culture.
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