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The Zen Arts
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ISBN: 1136855513 1315028913 9781136855511 0700714758 9780700714759 9781315028910 9781136855580 9781136855658 9780415406024 1136855580 Year: 2013 Publisher: Hoboken Taylor and Francis

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The tea ceremony and the martial arts are intimately linked in the popular and historical imagination with Zen Buddhism, and Japanese culture. They are commonly interpreted as religio-aesthetic pursuits which express core spiritual values through bodily gesture and the creation of highly valued objects. Ideally, the experience of practising the Zen arts culminates in enlightenment.
This book challenges that long-held view and proposes that the Zen arts should be understood as part of a literary and visual history of representing Japanese culture through the arts. Cox argues that these texts

Dancing into darkness : Butoh, Zen, and Japan
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ISBN: 0822990628 9780822990628 0822940981 9780822940982 1852730684 9781852730680 0822961156 9780822961154 Year: 1999 Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : [London?] : University of Pittsburgh Press ; Dance Books,

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"Dancing Into Darkness is Sondra Horton Fraleigh's chronological diary of her deepening understanding of and appreciation for this art form, as she moves from a position of aesthetic response as an audience member to that of assimilation as a student. As a student of Zen and butoh, Fraleigh witnesses her own artistic and personal transformation through essays, poems, interviews, and reflections spanning twelve years of study, much of it in Japan. Numerous performance photographs and original calligraphy by Fraleigh's Zen teacher Shodo Akane illuminate her words."--Jacket "Butoh, also known as "dance of darkness," is a postmodern dance form that began in Japan as an effort to recover the primal body, or "the body that has not been robbed," as butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata put it. Butoh has become increasingly popular in the United States and throughout the world, diversifying its aesthetic, while at the same time asserting the power of its spiritual foundations."--Jacket

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