This provocative book is a tractatemdash;a treatisemdash;on beauty in Japanese art; written in the manner of a zuihitsu; a free-ranging assortment of ideas that ldquo;follow the brushrdquo; 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 wabi; sabi; aware; and yugen; and ponders their relevance in art and cinema today.
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