Inexorable modernity :  Japan's grappling with modernity in the arts / 
edited by Hiroshi Nara. 
 - xiii, 269 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction : inexorable modernity /  Potentially disruptive : censorship and the painter Kawanabe Kyosai /  "Modernite in art" : Kojima Kikuo's critique of contemporary Japanese painting, 1931-1940 /  The ascent of Yoga in modern Japan and the Pacific War /  Art and ethics in Watsuji Tetsuro's philosophy /  Contesting authority through comic disruption : mixed marriages as metaphor in postwar Kyogen experiments /  An aesthetic of destruction : Mishima Yukio's My friend Hitler /  Remembered idylls, forgotten truths : nostalgia and geography in the drama of Shimizu Kunio /  Healing the (metaphysically) sick (theatre) : the Buddhist Ibsen in Christian Japan /  The wild geese revisited : Mori Ogai's mix of old and new /  Public space and the nature of modern fiction : Izumi Kyoka's Noble blood, heroic blood /  Yokomitsu Riichi's two machines /  Hiroshi Nara --  Brenda G. Jordan --  Mikiko Hirayama --  Mayu Tsuruya --  Hiroshi Nara --  Jonah Salz --  David G. Goodman --  David Jortner --  Devin J. Wetmore, Jr. --  Keiko L. Mcdonald --  Charles Shrio Inouye --  John K. Gillespie.  Ch. 1.  Ch. 2.  Ch. 3.  Ch. 4.  Ch. 5.  Ch. 6.  Ch. 7.  Ch. 8.  Ch. 9.  Ch. 10.  Ch. 11. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0739118412 9780739118412 0739118420 9780739118429 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2006031132 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Arts, Japanese--1868-<br/>Modernism (Aesthetics)--Japan<br/>Modernism (Art)--Japan<br/>Modernism (Literature)--Japan
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NX584.A1  / I54 2007 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>700.9520904