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I think you'll enjoy Junichiro Tanizaki's essay: "In Praise of Shadows"[1] on Japanese aesthetics - from toilet design to art of Kintsukuroi. If you haven't rea

I think you'll enjoy Junichiro Tanizaki's essay: "In Praise of Shadows"[1] on Japanese aesthetics - from toilet design to art of Kintsukuroi. If you haven't read it, it was written more than 50 years ago[2] and still stands true about the Japanese aesthetic culture - it is amazing. [1][PDF] http://wwwedu.artcenter.edu/mertzel/spatial_scenography_1/Class%20Files/resources/In%20Praise%20of%20Shadows.pdf http://wwwedu.artcenter.edu/mertzel/spatial_scenography_1/Cl... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Praise_of_Shadows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Praise_of_Shadows

GuiA 8y ago
I read this book recently and... yeah. It’s filled with stuff like him bemoaning how “western” chemistry and the periodic table of elements are, and speculating about how “Japanese physics” would be. Oh and that’s not getting into the whole BS about purity and skin color he gets into. It’s nihonjinron at its finest. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihonjinron https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihonjinron