Inexorable Modernity Japan's Grappling with Modernity in the Arts

by Nara, Hiroshi; Gillespie, John K.; Goodman, David G.; Inouye, Charles Shiro; Hirayama, Mikiko; Jordan, Brenda G.; Jortner, David; McDonald, Keiko I.; Salz, Jonah; Tsuruya, Mayu; Wetmore, Kevin J., Jr.

• ISBN13: 9780739118412
• ISBN10: 0739118412
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-02-16
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

The book represents a compilation of case studies about Japanese intellectuals' relationships to modernity in three majors arenas of art (art and aesthetics, theater, and literature) beginning in the 1850s to the 1970s. It discusses how inevitable wave of modernity was responded to, discussed, assimilated, changed by some of the most notable practitioners of art and intellectuals in Japan during this period.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	p. ix
Editor's Note	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction: Inexorable Modernity Hiroshi Nara	p. 1
Art and Aesthetics
Potentially Disruptive: Censorship and the Painter Kawanabe Kyosai	p. 17
"Modernite in Art" Kojima Kikuo's Critique of Contemporary Japanese Painting, 1931-1940	p. 49
The Ascent of Yoga in Modern Japan and the Pacific War	p. 69
Art and Ethics in Watsuji Tetsuro's Philosophy	p. 101
Theatre
Contesting Authority through Comic Disruption: Mixed Marriages as Metaphor in Postwar Kyogen Experiments	p. 129
An Aesthetic of Destruction Mishima Yukio's My Friend Hitler	p. 151
Remembered Idylls, Forgotten Truths: Nostalgia and Geography in the Drama of Shimizu Kunio	p. 163
Healing the (Metaphysically) Sick (Theatre) The Buddhist Ibsen in Christian Japan	p. 183
Literature
The Wild Geese Revisited Mori Ogai's Mix of Old and New	p. 201
Public Space and the Nature of Modern Fiction: Izumi Kyoka's Noble Blood, Heroic Blood	p. 217
Yokomitsu Riichi's Two Machines	p. 229
Index	p. 255
Contributors	p. 267
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