Emilia Chalandon: Tree Blossoms and Rock Gardens: On the Duality of the Japanese Sense of Beauty

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Upcoming event at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies,
Kyoto, Japan:

Nichibunken Evening Seminar on Japanese Studies (192nd Meeting), November 6, 2014 (Thursday), 4:30 P.M.-6:30 P.M.

Speaker: Emilia Chalandon

Topic: Tree Blossoms and Rock Gardens: On the Duality of the Japanese Sense of Beauty

Language: English

Place: Seminar Room 2, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 3-2 Oeyama-cho, Goryo, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 610-1192

URL: <http://www.nichibun.ac.jp/> http://www.nichibun.ac.jp/

About the speaker:

Born in Bulgaria, Dr. Chalandon received her B.A. in Japanese History from St. Petersburg University (Russia), and her M.A and Ph.D. in Japanese Literature and Comparative Culture from Nara Women’s University in Japan. She taught ancient Japanese literature (Kojiki) and comparative culture at Shikoku University for four years, then moved to France, where she taught modern Japanese history and Japanese language at the university of Toulouse le Mirail for one year. She has published one book on wabi and sabi for French general readership, Des pierres et des fleurs. The writing of that book incited her to do further research on Japanese aesthetics, which she is pursuing during her year at Nichibunken as a visiting research scholar.

Abstract:

This talk revolves around the speaker’s surprising discoveries and reflections upon reading the two books Histoire de l’art japonais (1887) and Japan, Described and Illustrated by the Japanese (1897-1898), through which the Meiji government aimed to introduce Japan to the world.  First was the conflict between the two upper classes, the aristocracy and the warriors (kizoku and bushi), clearly expressed in each of the books. Second was the impression of cha no yu—the tea ceremony and its aesthetics—as something peculiar and limited to a smaller circle of amateurs than previously imagined. And third was the critical view of Zen and its aesthetics (quite opposite to his later views) expressed by Okakura Kakuzo, who wrote ten essays on Japanese art in Japan, Described and Illustrated by the Japanese. Using a comparative approach with regard to the two books, the speaker will then consider the dual essence of the Japanese sense of beauty.

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