Evanescence and form : an introduction to Japanese culture

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Evanescence and form : an introduction to Japanese culture

Charles Shirō Inouye

Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-252) and index

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This book explores the Japanese notion of hakanasa - the evanescence of all things. Responses to this idea have been various and even contradictory: asceticism, fatalism, conformism, hedonism, materialism, and careerism. This book examines the ties between an epistemology of constant change and Japan's formal emphasis on etiquette and visuality.

Table of Contents

All Things Are Changing Defining the Sacred Flux and Identity Leaving the World Hedonism Sacrifice Fatalism Work Wrapping Materialism The Supremacy of Style The Nature of Etiquette Not One Space but Many If There Were a Holy Book Visual Nature A World Where Nothing Is Special

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