A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics

This provocative book is a tractatea treatiseon beauty in Japanese artwritten in the manner of a zuihitsu a freeranging assortment of ideas thatfollow the brush... » 

This provocative book is a tractatea treatiseon beauty in Japanese artwritten in the manner of a zuihitsu a freeranging assortment of ideas thatfollow the brush wherever it leads. Donald Richie looks at how perceptualvalues in Japan were drawn from raw nature and then modified by elegantexpressions of class and taste. He explains aesthetic concepts like wabi sabiaware and yugen and ponders their relevance in art and cinema today. DonaldRichie is the foremost explorer of Japanese culture in English and this workis the culmination of sixty years of observing and writing from his home inTokyo. «