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Author : Yoshisaburō Okakura
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Life and Thought of Japan written by Yoshisaburō Okakura and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hiroshi Miura
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802842053
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Life and Thought of Kanzo Uchimura, 1861-1930 written by Hiroshi Miura and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While staying in the United States in 1884 at the age of 23, Kanzo Uchimura (1861-1930) felt a sense of religious calling that led him to devote the rest of his life to Christian mission in Japan. His subsequent life and work earned him recognition as one of the most important Japanese thinkers, essayists, and theologians of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Uchimura claimed that Japan adopted Western civilization at the reopening of the country in the late nineteenth century but did not adopt Christianity itself -- the very cause, spirit, and life of Western civilization. This was the origin of all the difficulties Japan had been experiencing. There is no question that Uchimura believed Christianity would save Japan and the Japanese; the real question was "What kind of Christianity?" In his view Christian faith entails a radical dependence on the gospel; baptism, communion, and the other sacraments are not necessary. He also believed that God's truth can be revealed directly to each individual, so that an intermediary between God and people, such as a minister, priest, or pope, is not required. This argument led Uchimura to start the Mukyokai-shugi (Non-churchism), a denial of the institutional church. Miura here explores in depth this theme in Uchimura's thought as well as Uchimura's particular vision of Japan's mission to the world. This study not only offers Western readers new information about Kanzo Uchimura and the Japanese Non- church Movement; it also provides important insights into the way Christianity can be indigenized in a new culture, such as that of modern Japan.
Author : Yoshisaburō Okakura
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Life and Thought of Japan written by Yoshisaburō Okakura and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Buddhism in the Life and Thought of Japan written by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Evelyn Tucker
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780887068898
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (688 download)
Download or read book Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism written by Mary Evelyn Tucker and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaibara Ekken (1630--1714) was the focal Neo-Confucian thinker of the early Tokagawa period. He established the importance of Neo-Confucianism in Japan at a time when Buddhism had long been the dominant religious philosophy. This is the first book-length presentation of his thought. It contains a lengthy introduction to Ekken's life, time, and thought, and a careful translation into readable English of Ekken's book, Precepts for Daily Life in Japan (Yamanto Zokkun).
Author : Chikao Fujisawa
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504060199
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Zen and Shinto written by Chikao Fujisawa and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of Japanese philosophical traditions underscores the importance of Zen and Shinto to the development of Japanese culture. How do the Japanese talk about their native philosophy, Shinto, so many years after the Western Allies abolished it as a state religion? What is its relationship to Buddhism, and particularly to Zen? How modern can this very ancient creed ever be? These are some of the questions considered in this analytic work by Dr. Chikao Fujisawa, who specializes in the study of traditional Japanese philosophy and its effect on modern society. Fujisawa’s work is not only a survey of Zen and Shinto, but also an impassioned plea to restore Shinto as the very substance of Japanese life and thought. At the same time, Zen and Shinto offers new insight into the depth and vitality of Japanese culture, demonstrating its remarkable capacity to assimilate foreign thought and ideas, and thus contribute to the world’s hope for permanent peace.
Author : OKAKURA-YOSHISABURO. OKAKURA-YOSHISABURO
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033721759
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (217 download)
Download or read book LIFE AND THOUGHT OF JAPAN OF JAPAN written by OKAKURA-YOSHISABURO. OKAKURA-YOSHISABURO and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Evelyn Tucker
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438422431
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism written by Mary Evelyn Tucker and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1989-07-15 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaibara Ekken (1630—1714) was the focal Neo-Confucian thinker of the early Tokagawa period. He established the importance of Neo-Confucianism in Japan at a time when Buddhism had long been the dominant religious philosophy. This is the first book-length presentation of his thought. It contains a lengthy introduction to Ekken's life, time, and thought, and a careful translation into readable English of Ekken's book, Precepts for Daily Life in Japan (Yamanto Zokkun).
Author : Okakura-Yoshisaburo Okakura-Yoshisaburo
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484475969
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (759 download)
Download or read book The Life and Thought of Japan of Japan (Classic Reprint) written by Okakura-Yoshisaburo Okakura-Yoshisaburo and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life and Thought of Japan of Japan The present work is a result of my humble attempts to bring about a better understanding of my native land by the Occidental mind. Its main object is to show that Japan, in spite of such modern developments as the feminist or the anarchist movements, still re mains in spirit very much the same as she ever was in the days of yore. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Yoshisaburo OKAKURA
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (563 download)
Download or read book The Life and Thought of Japan ... With Twenty-five Illustrations written by Yoshisaburo OKAKURA and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Okakura-Yoshisaburo
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330582282
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (822 download)
Download or read book The Life and Thought of Japan of Japan written by Okakura-Yoshisaburo and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life and Thought of Japan of Japan The present work is a result of my humble attempts to bring about a better understanding of my native land by the Occidental mind. Its main object is to show that Japan, in spite of such modern developments as the feminist or the anarchist movements, still remains in spirit very much the same as she ever was in the days of yore. My hearty thanks are due to Mr Joseph Warner, whose deep sympathy with Japan enabled me to deliver to a Boston audience the lectures which are here reprinted, with some modifications. I am also indebted to my friend, Mr Walter Rippmann, for undertaking to see this book through the press. Nor must I forget to mention here the Boston Athenæum. Ungrateful indeed should I be were I ever to forget the sweet hours I spent amid books, in a home-like snugness, where most of these chapters were actually penned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Héctor García
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143130722
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Ikigai written by Héctor García and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • 2 MILLION+ COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE “Workers looking for more fulfilling positions should start by identifying their ikigai.” ―Business Insider “One of the unintended—yet positive—consequences of the [pandemic] is that it is forcing people to reevaluate their jobs, careers, and lives. Use this time wisely, find your personal ikigai, and live your best life.” ―Forbes Find your ikigai (pronounced ee-key-guy) to live longer and bring more meaning and joy to all your days. “Only staying active will make you want to live a hundred years.” —Japanese proverb According to the Japanese, everyone has an ikigai—a reason for living. And according to the residents of the Japanese village with the world’s longest-living people, finding it is the key to a happier and longer life. Having a strong sense of ikigai—where what you love, what you’re good at, what you can get paid for, and what the world needs all overlap—means that each day is infused with meaning. It’s the reason we get up in the morning. It’s also the reason many Japanese never really retire (in fact there’s no word in Japanese that means retire in the sense it does in English): They remain active and work at what they enjoy, because they’ve found a real purpose in life—the happiness of always being busy. In researching this book, the authors interviewed the residents of the Japanese village with the highest percentage of 100-year-olds—one of the world’s Blue Zones. Ikigai reveals the secrets to their longevity and happiness: how they eat, how they move, how they work, how they foster collaboration and community, and—their best-kept secret—how they find the ikigai that brings satisfaction to their lives. And it provides practical tools to help you discover your own ikigai. Because who doesn’t want to find happiness in every day?
Author : Richard H. Mitchell
Publisher : Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Thought Control in Prewar Japan written by Richard H. Mitchell and published by Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Glen D. Hook
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134427875
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Japan and Okinawa written by Glen D. Hook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan and Okinawa provides an up-to-date, coherent and theoretically informed examination of Okinawa from the perspective of political economy and society. It combines a focus on structure and subjectivity as a way to analyze Okinawa, Okinawans and their relationship with global, regional and national structures. The book draws on a range of disciplines to provide new insights into both the contemporary and historical place of Okinawa and the Okinawans. The first half of the book examines Okinawa as part of the global, regional and national structures which impose constraints as well as offer opportunities to Okinawa. Leading specialists examine in detail topics such as Okinawa as a frontier region, Okinawa's Free Trade Zones and response to globalization, and Okinawa as part of the Japanese 'construction state', being particularly concerned with how Okinawa can chart its own course. The second half focuses on questions of identity and subjectivity, examining the multitude of vibrant cultural practices that breathe life into the meaning of being Okinawan and inform their social and political responses to structural constraints. The originality of this book can be found in its elucidation of how the structural constraints of Okinawa's precarious position in the world, the region and as part of Japan impact on subjectivity. For many Okinawans, in the past as now, acceptance and rationalization of their dependency has made them collaborators in their own subordination. At the same time, however, they have demonstrated a capacity to give voice to a separate identity, inscribing cultural practices marking them as different from mainland Japanese.
Author : Paul S. Atkins
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824858700
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Teika written by Paul S. Atkins and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fujiwara no Teika (1162–1241) was born into an illustrious lineage of poets just as Japan’s ancien régime was ceding authority to a new political order dominated by military power. Overcoming personal and political setbacks, Teika and his allies championed a new style of poetry that managed to innovate conceptually and linguistically within the narrow confines of the waka tradition and the limits of its thirty-one syllable form. Backed by powerful patrons, Teika emerged finally as the supreme arbiter of poetry in his time, serving as co-compiler of the eighth imperial anthology of waka, Shin Kokinshū (ca. 1210) and as solo compiler of the ninth. This first book-length study of Teika in English covers the most important and intriguing aspects of Teika’s achievements and career, seeking the reasons behind Teika’s fame and offering distinctive arguments about his oeuvre. A documentary biography sets the stage with valuable context about his fascinating life and times, followed by an exploration of his “Bodhidharma style,” as Teika’s critics pejoratively termed the new style of poetry. His beliefs about poetry are systematically elaborated through a thorough overview of his writing about waka. Teika’s understanding of classical Chinese history, literature, and language is the focus of a separate chapter that examines the selective use of kana, the Japanese phonetic syllabary, in Teika’s diary, which was written mainly in kanbun, a Japanese version of classical Chinese. The final chapter surveys the reception history of Teika’s biography and literary works, from his own time into the modern period. Sometimes venerated as demigod of poetry, other times denigrated as an arrogant, inscrutable poet, Teika seldom inspired lukewarm reactions in his readers. Courtier, waka poet, compiler, copyist, editor, diarist, and critic, Teika is recognized today as one of the most influential poets in the history of Japanese literature. His oeuvre includes over four thousand waka poems, his diary, Meigetsuki, which he kept for over fifty years, and a fictional tale set in Tang-dynasty China. Over fifteen years in the making, Teika is essential reading for anyone interested in Japanese poetry, the history of Japan, and traditional Japanese culture.
Author : Thomas P. Kasulis
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824873831
Total Pages : 785 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Engaging Japanese Philosophy written by Thomas P. Kasulis and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2017-12-31 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy challenges our assumptions—especially when it comes to us from another culture. In exploring Japanese philosophy, a dependable guide is essential. The present volume, written by a renowned authority on the subject, offers readers a historical survey of Japanese thought that is both comprehensive and comprehensible. Adhering to the Japanese philosophical tradition of highlighting engagement over detachment, Thomas Kasulis invites us to think with, as well as about, the Japanese masters by offering ample examples, innovative analogies, thought experiments, and jargon-free explanations. He assumes little previous knowledge and addresses themes—aesthetics, ethics, the samurai code, politics, among others—not in a vacuum but within the conditions of Japan’s cultural and intellectual history. For readers new to Japanese studies, he provides a simplified guide to pronouncing Japanese and a separate discussion of the language and how its syntax, orthography, and linguistic layers can serve the philosophical purposes of a skilled writer and subtle thinker. For those familiar with the Japanese cultural tradition but less so with philosophy, Kasulis clarifies philosophical expressions and problems, Western as well as Japanese, as they arise. Half of the book’s chapters are devoted to seven major thinkers who collectively represent the full range of Japan’s historical epochs and philosophical traditions: Kūkai, Shinran, Dōgen, Ogyū Sorai, Motoori Norinaga, Nishida Kitarō, and Watsuji Tetsurō. Nuanced details and analyses enable an engaged understanding of Japanese Buddhism, Confucianism, Shintō, and modern academic philosophy. Other chapters supply social and cultural background, including brief discussions of nearly a hundred other philosophical writers. (For additional information, cross references to material in the companion volume Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook are included.) In his closing chapter Kasulis reflects on lessons from Japanese philosophy that enhance our understanding of philosophy itself. He reminds us that philosophy in its original sense means loving wisdom, not studying ideas. In that regard, a renewed appreciation of engaged knowing can play a critical role in the revitalization of philosophy in the West as well as the East.
Author : Grace E. Lavery
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691183627
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Quaint, Exquisite written by Grace E. Lavery and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Japan captured the Victorian imagination and transformed Western aesthetics From the opening of trade with Britain in the 1850s, Japan occupied a unique and contradictory place in the Victorian imagination, regarded as both a rival empire and a cradle of exquisite beauty. Quaint, Exquisite explores the enduring impact of this dramatic encounter, showing how the rise of Japan led to a major transformation of Western aesthetics at the dawn of globalization. Drawing on philosophy, psychoanalysis, queer theory, textual criticism, and a wealth of in-depth archival research, Grace Lavery provides a radical new genealogy of aesthetic experience in modernity. She argues that the global popularity of Japanese art in the late nineteenth century reflected an imagined universal standard of taste that Kant described as the “subjective universal” condition of aesthetic judgment. The book features illuminating cultural histories of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Mikado, English derivations of the haiku, and retellings of the Madame Butterfly story, and sheds critical light on lesser-known figures such as Winnifred Eaton, an Anglo-Chinese novelist who wrote under the Japanese pseudonym Onoto Watanna, and Mikimoto Ryuzo, a Japanese enthusiast of the Victorian art critic John Ruskin. Lavery also explains the importance and symbolic power of such material objects as W. B. Yeats’s prized katana sword and the “Japanese vellum” luxury editions of Oscar Wilde. Quaint, Exquisite provides essential insights into the modern understanding of beauty as a vehicle for both intimacy and violence, and the lasting influence of Japanese forms today on writers and artists such as Quentin Tarantino.
