Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS IX
4. Introduction 1
5. THE INTRODUCTION OF AESTHETICS
6. 1 Longing for "Beauty" 25
7. 2 Japan as Art Museum Okakura Tenshin and Fenollosa 43
8. 3 Fenollosa and Tsubouchi Shōyō 53
9. 4 Mori Ōgai and German Aesthetics 68
10. AESTHETICS AT WASEDA UNIVERSITY
11. 5 Ōnishi Hajime: Criticism and Aesthetics 95
12. 6 The Aesthetic Thought of Shimamura Hōgetsu 106
13. 7 The Aesthetician Takayama Chogyū 114
14. 8 The Aesthetics of Aizu Yaichi: Longing for the South 133
15. AESTHETICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO
16. 9 Biographies of Aestheticians: Otsuka Yasuji 151
17. 10 The Aesthetic Thought of Ōnishi Yoshinori 164
18. 11 Style in Japanese Aesthetics: Ōnishi Yoshinori 175
19. 12 Watsuji Tetsurō and His Perception of Japan 187
20. 13 On the Aesthetics of Abe Jirō 197
21. 14 Aesthetics at the University of Tokyo after World War II 204
22. 15 The Pliant Philosophy of Sakabe Megumi 211
23. AESTHETICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KYOTO
24. 16 An Aesthetician from Kyoto: Nakagawa Shigeaki 225
25. 17 The Thought and Times of Fukada Yasukazu 238
26. 18 Nishida Kitaro and Art 259
27. 19 The Logic of Visual Perception Ueda Juzō 285
28. 20 Kuki Shūzō and the Phenomenology of Iki 318
29. 21 Aesthetics at the University of Kyoto after World War II 345
30. GLOSSARY 349
31. CHRONOLOGY 359
32. BIBLIOGRAPHY 375
33. INDEX 393
34. ABOUT THE EDITOR 399