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If We Thought That Reality Were Changeable, Fragile, And Fleeting, Would We Take Life More Seriously Or Less Seriously? This Book Contemplates The Notion Of Hakanasa, The Evanescence Of All Things, As Understood By The Japanese. Their Lived Responses To This Idea Of Impermanence Have Been Various And Even Contradictory. Asceticism, Fatalism, Conformism. Hedonism, Materialism, Careerism. What This Array Of Responses Have In Common Are, First, A Grounding In Hakanasa, And, Second, An Emphasis On Formality. Evanescence And Etiquette Attempts To Illuminate For The First Time The Ties Between An Epistemology Of Constant Change And Japan's Formal Emphasis On Etiquette And Visuality. In Spring The Cherry Blossoms -- Change And Nature -- Japanese Poetics And A First Consideration Of Animism -- Utsusemi, The Cicada's Shell -- Hakanasa And Mujō -- Anitya In A World Of Spontaneity -- Life As It Seems, Nagarjuna's Emptiness -- Shukke: Leaving The World -- Success And Failure -- The Transcendental Order/the Order Of Here-and-now -- Zen, Kata, And The Noh Theater -- Hedonism -- Matsuo Bashō, Permanence And Change -- Mono No Aware, The Sadness Of Things -- Protocol And Loyal Retainers -- Inner An

Who reads Evanescence and Form : An Introduction to Japanese Culture?

Author

Charles Shirō Inouye

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan US

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780230615489

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Buddhism, Anthropology, Philosophy