A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics - by Donald Richie (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Sure to be a classic, Donald Richie's concise, profound insights into the mysteries of Japanese<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This provocative book is a tractate--a treatise--on beauty in Japanese art, written in the manner of a <i>zuihitsu, </i> a free-ranging assortment of ideas that "follow the brush" wherever it leads. Donald Richie looks at how perceptual values in Japan were drawn from raw nature and then modified by elegant expressions of class and taste. He explains aesthetic concepts like <i>wabi, sabi, aware, </i> and <i>yugen, </i> and ponders their relevance in art and cinema today.</p><p> <b>Donald Richie</b> is the foremost explorer of Japanese culture in English, and this work is the culmination of sixty years of observing and writing from his home in Tokyo.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Donald Richie has been writing about Japan for over 50 years from his base in Tokyo and is the author of over 40 books and hundreds of essays and reviews. He is widely admired for his incisive film studies on Ozu and Kurosawa, and for his stylish and incisive observations on Japanese culture.
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