The Arts of Honʼami Kōetsu
Author: Kōetsu Hon'ami
Publisher: Philadelphia Museum (PA)
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kōetsu Hon'ami
Publisher: Philadelphia Museum (PA)
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Hugo Munsterberg
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780804800426
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Institute for Scientific Information (Philadelphia)
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Published: 2001
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Makoto Fujimura
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2016-04-01
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 0830844597
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Internationally renowned artist Makoto Fujimura reflects on Shusaku Endo's novel Silence and grapples with the nature of art, pain and culture. Showing that light is yet present in darkness, he uncovers deep layers of meaning in Japanese history and finds connections to how faith is lived in contexts of trauma.
Author: Kenneth P. Kirkwood
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: 2012-08-21
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 1462912095
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Renaissance in Japan is a superb survey of Japan's literary giants—forerunners of today's modern Japanese writers. Called the "Kyoto epoch," the age in which these writers lived was the period in which Japanese cultural development made many of its greatest advances. In these years of the early Tokugawa era, the old aristocratic culture was confronted with the new plebeian awakening, giving rise to dynamic social developments, in effect a peaceful revolution. The humanistic movement that emerged during this period is epitomized in and popular arts and letters by such famous figures as Basho, the pilgrim poet; Saikaku, novelist of the gilded age, and Chikamatsu, Japan's greatest playwright. In that stirring period Basho wrote such undying poetry as: "The lark sings through the long spring day, but never enough for its heart's content." Saikaku noted that "love is darkness, but in the land of love the darkest night is bright as noon." Chikamatsu wrote wisely that "art is something which lies in the slender margin between the real and the unreal." In Japan it was the beginning of the end of the feudal Dark Ages—even though the political ramifications would not be manifest until the advent of the Meiji Restoration.
Author: Yuko Kikuchi
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-07-31
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 113442955X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Conceptualised in 1920s Japan by Yanagi Sôetsu, the Mingei movement has spread world wide since the 1950s, creating phenomena as diverse as Mingei museums, Mingei connoisseurs and collectors, Mingei shops and Mingei restaurants. The theory, at its core and its adaptation by Bernard Leach, has long been an influential 'Oriental' aesthetic for studio craft artists in the West. But why did Mingei become so particularly influential to a western audience? And could the 'Orientalness' perceived in Mingei theory be nothing more than a myth? This richly illustrated work offers controversial new evidence through its cross-cultural examination of a wide range of materials in Japanese, English, Korean and Chinese, bringing about startling new conclusions concerning Japanese modernization and cultural authenticity. This new interpretation of the Mingei movement will appeal to scholars of Japanese art history as well as those with interests in cultural identity in non-Western cultures.