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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
Aesthetics, Japanese. --- Japan -- Civilization -- Zen influences. --- Zen arts -- Japan. --- J1895 --- J1880 --- J6020 --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- art --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- Zen --- Japan: Art and antiquities -- Japanese aesthetics (Japonism) --- Zen arts --- Japan --- Civilization --- Zen influences. --- Japanese aesthetics --- Arts, Zen --- Buddhist arts
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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
Butō. --- Zen arts --- Arts, Zen --- Buddhist arts --- Ankoku Buto --- Butoh --- Modern dance --- Butō --- J1880 --- J6810 --- J6811.60 --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- Zen --- Japan: Performing arts and entertainment -- dance --- Japan: Performing arts and entertainment -- dance -- butō (butoh) --- Recreation. Games. Sports. Corp. expression --- Japan --- Art, Japanese --- Performing Arts --- Arts --- Manufactures --- Art --- Technology & Engineering
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