Reflections on Japanese Taste: The Structure of Iki by Kuki Shūzō

Reflections on Japanese Taste: The Structure of Iki

Kuki Shūzō

168 pages • first pub 1930 (editions)

nonfiction art philosophy informative reflective relaxing medium-paced
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The first English translation of a remarkable book on modern aesthetics that clarifies a distinctively plebeian Japanese sensibility based on a unique category of taste, iki. The work anticipates directions in postwar thought, structuralism in par...

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