The idealization of contingency in traditional Japanese aesthetics

Journal of Aesthetic Education

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 88-101

  Wicks, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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EID: 34249429633     PISSN: 00218510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jae.2005.0033     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Recent examples include Yuriko Saito, "The Japanese Aesthetics of Imperfection and Insufficiency," Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 55 no. 4 (1997): 377-85
2. and Donald Keene, "Japanese Aesthetics," in Japanese Aesthetics and Culture - A Reader, ed. Nancy G. Hume (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995)
3. [Originally published in Donald Keene, The Pleasures of Japanese Literature (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988).]
4. Earlier examples include Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea (New York: Dover, 1964; originally published in 1906)
5. and D.T. Suzuki, Zen and Japanese Culture (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1959; originally published in 1938)
6. For a discussion of universal compositional principles, see John F.A. Taylor, Design and Expression in the Visual Arts (New York: Dover, 1964), especially Chapters III and IV, which include references to the principle of complementarity
7. For an account of Japanese aesthetics and culture that strongly emphasizes the influence of Zen, see D.T. Suzuki, Zen and Japanese Culture, cited above in note number one
8. Masao Abe, "Dōgen on Buddha Nature," Eastern Buddhist NS 4, no. 1 (1971): 66
9. Kazuaki Tanahashi, ed., Moon in a Dewdrop - Writings of Zen Master Dōgen (New York: North Point Press, 1985), 135
10. Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure, The Book of the Samurai, trans. William Scott Wilson (Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1979), "From the 2nd Chapter," 68. This text has a Confucian influence, as well as a Buddhist one
11. Haga Kōshirō, "The Wabi Aesthetic through the Ages," trans. Martin Colkutt, in Tea in Japan - Essays on the History of Chanoyu, ed. Paul Varley and Kumakura Isao (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989), 207
12. Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea, trans. Lloyd Alexander (New York: New Directions, 1964; originally published in 1938), 129
13. This resonant and revealing phrase is from Karl Jaspers, Reason and Existenz, trans. William Earle (New York: Noonday Press, 1955), 19
14. Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea (New York: Dover, 1964), 36-37
15. Crispin Sartwell, The Art of Living - Aesthetics of the Ordinary in World Spiritual Traditions (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995), 40