In Praise of Shadows
An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. The book also includes descriptions of laquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of pleasure.
An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. The book also includes descriptions of laquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of pleasure.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099283577 (0099283573)
Publish date: September 1st 2006
Publisher: Vintage Books
Pages no: 73
Edition language: Japanese
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
Cultural,
Art,
Culture,
Philosophy,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Japan,
Design,
Architecture,
Japanese Literature
The quality that we call beauty ... must always grow from the realities of life. In Praise of Shadows, written by the well known Japanese novelist Tanizaki Jun'ichirō (1886-1965) in 1933, is a particularly charming and discursive rumination on the differences between Japanese (indeed, East Asian...
In Praise of Shadows is an essay on aesthetics by one of my favourite Japanese writers, it was originally published in 1933, with the English translation coming out in 1977. This is a tiny book of less than fifty pages, containing a foreword and an afterword, making the essay itself only forty-two...
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