Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
xx, 262 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [235]-244. |
Note |
Includes index. |
Contents |
The beginnings : prehistory to 1333. Zen culture and the counter mind ; The prelude to Zen culture ; The rise of Japanese Buddhism ; The chronicles of Zen ; Zen archery and swordsmanship (the Kamakura era : 1185-1333) -- The age of high culture : Ashikaga (1333-1373). The great age of Zen ; Zen and the landscape garden ; The stone gardens of Zen ; Zen and the ink landscape ; The Zen aesthetics of Japanese architecture ; The Nō theater -- The rise of popular Zen culture : 1573 to the present. Bourgeois society and later Zen ; The tea ceremony ; Zen ceramic art ; Zen and haiku ; Private Zen : flowers and food ; The lessons of Zen culture. |
Subject |
Japan -- Civilization -- Zen influences.
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ISBN |
0394410726 |
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9780394410722 |
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