A History of Modern Japanese Aesthetics / / Michael F. Marra.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Marra, Michael F.,
• MitwirkendeR: Junko, Saeki,; Kazuyasu, Watanabe,; Kenjiro, Yoshioka,; Ken’ichi, Iwaki,; Ken’ichi, Sasaki,; Kyūbun, Tanaka,; Kōjin, Karatani,; Lewin, Bruno,; Masao, Yamamoto,; Nobukuni, Koyasu,; Tamio, Kaneda,; Teiichi, Hijikata,; Tomonobu, Imamichi,; Toshihiro, Hirata,; Tsunemichi, Kambayashi,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2023]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (410 p.)

This collection of essays constitutes the first history of modern Japanese aesthetics in any language. It introduces readers through lucid and readable translations to works on the philosophy of art written by major Japanese thinkers from the late nineteenth century to the present. Selected from a variety of sources (monographs, journals, catalogues), the essays cover topics related to the study of beauty in art and nature.The translations are organized into four parts. The first, "The Introduction of Aesthetics," traces the formation of notions of "beauty," "culture," and "art" in Japan. It includes discussion of the creation of the museum in Japan and the frenetic efforts of Nishi Amane, Okakura Tenshin, Ernest Fenollosa, and Mori Ogai to introduce German, British, and French aesthetic thought to the Japanese. This is followed by three sections that examine the transformation of the aesthetic field into an academic discipline that flourished at three major Japanese universities."Aesthetics at Waseda University" begins with an essay on the spiritualism and idealism of Onishi Hajime and continues with essays on the impact of German Lebensphilosophie ("philosophy of life") on Shimamura Hogetsu and Takayama Chogyu, and work by the major Waseda aesthetician of the twentieth century, Aizu Yaichi. Thinkers of the Tokyo School adopted a "scientific" method in the study of art theory. Part 3, "Aesthetics at the University of Tokyo," focuses on the ideas of Otsuka Yasuji (holder of the world’s first Chair of Aesthetics), Onishi Yoshinori, Watsuji Tetsuro, Abe Jiro, Takeuchi Toshio, and Imamichi Tomonobu. The section concludes with a look at the contemporary philosopher Sakabe Megumi. The last section, "Aesthetics at the University of Kyoto," includes essays on Nakagawa Shigeki and Fukada Yasukazu, pioneers in the field of aesthetics, and on the philosophy of art of the "Kyoto School," which was deeply inspired by the thought of Nishida Kitaro. Finally the work of Kuki Shuzo, an influential teacher of Western philosophy at the University of Kyoto, is examined.A History of Modern Japanese Aesthetics is a companion volume to Modern Japanese Aesthetics: A Reader (UH Press, 1999).

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- THE INTRODUCTION OF AESTHETICS -- 1 Longing for "Beauty" -- 2 Japan as Art Museum Okakura Tenshin and Fenollosa -- 3 Fenollosa and Tsubouchi Shōyō -- 4 Mori Ōgai and German Aesthetics -- AESTHETICS AT WASEDA UNIVERSITY -- 5 Ōnishi Hajime: Criticism and Aesthetics -- 6 The Aesthetic Thought of Shimamura Hōgetsu -- 7 The Aesthetician Takayama Chogyū -- 8 The Aesthetics of Aizu Yaichi: Longing for the South -- AESTHETICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO -- 9 Biographies of Aestheticians: Otsuka Yasuji -- 10 The Aesthetic Thought of Ōnishi Yoshinori -- 11 Style in Japanese Aesthetics: Ōnishi Yoshinori -- 12 Watsuji Tetsurō and His Perception of Japan -- 13 On the Aesthetics of Abe Jirō -- 14 Aesthetics at the University of Tokyo after World War II -- 15 The Pliant Philosophy of Sakabe Megumi -- AESTHETICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KYOTO -- 16 An Aesthetician from Kyoto: Nakagawa Shigeaki -- 17 The Thought and Times of Fukada Yasukazu -- 18 Nishida Kitaro and Art -- 19 The Logic of Visual Perception Ueda Juzō -- 20 Kuki Shūzō and the Phenomenology of Iki -- 21 Aesthetics at the University of Kyoto after World War II -- GLOSSARY -- CHRONOLOGY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE EDITOR