In Praise of Shadows
Cuniçiro TanizakiIn Praise of Shadows Gönderileri
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Here again Tanizaki runs counter to orthodoxy. His pessimism (and probably his earthiness too) would not be at all popular with the modern artistic establishment: the ‘masters’ of flower arrangement, tea ceremony, calligraphy, painting, dance. Many of these people make handsome living by their art, and, as the government’s chosen cultural emissaries, have been influential shapers of the image of Japanese culture that is packaged for export. The implication that their art is stillborn could not but be resented. Tanizaki, however, would dismiss it as cold and sterile, too far removed from the sources of its life to claim any vitality. That scattered vestiges of excellence still survive he would not deny; and anyone who has seen for instance a votive performance of Nō on the weathered outdoor stage of a temple or shine must agree that they do survive. But for Tanizaki circuit museum piece is no cause for rejoicing. An art must live as a part of our daily lives or we had better give it up. We can admire it for what it once was, and try to understand what made it so — as Tanizaki does in *In Praise of Shadows* — but to pretend that we can still participate in it is mere posturing.
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Thomas J. Harper
One of the oldest and most deeply ingrained of Japanese attitudes to literary style holds that too obvious a structure is contrivance, that too orderly an exposition falsifies the ruminations of the heart, that the truest representation of the searching mind is just to ‘follow the brush’.
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Charles Moore
One of the basic human requirements is the need to dwell, and one of the central human acts is the act of inhabiting, of connecting ourselves, however temporarily, with a place on the planet which belongs to us and to which we belong.
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So benumbed are we nowadays by electric lights that we have become utterly insensitive to the evils of excessive illumination.
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Beautiful though such a face may be, it is after all made up; it has nothing of the immediate beauty of the flesh.
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And when the actor is a handsome young man with skin of fine texture and cheeks glowing with the freshness of youth, his good looks emerge as perfection, with a seductive charm quite different from a woman’s. Here, one sees, is the beauty that made feudal lords lose themselves over their boy favourites.
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