Shots in the dark Japan, Zen, and the West

Between the real and the fake -- The kitschy world of "Zen in/and the art of . . ." -- The rock garden in New York -- The moving borderline -- The mystery of Zen in the Art of Archery -- The beginning of the story -- Spiritual archery and Herrigel's meeting with its teacher -- Becomin...

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1. Verfasser: Yamada, Shōji (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Hartman, Earl (BerichterstatterIn)
Format: UnknownFormat
Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Chicago, Ill. u.a. The Univ. of Chicago Press u.a. 2009
Schriftenreihe:Nichibunken monograph series 9
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Zusammenfassung:Between the real and the fake -- The kitschy world of "Zen in/and the art of . . ." -- The rock garden in New York -- The moving borderline -- The mystery of Zen in the Art of Archery -- The beginning of the story -- Spiritual archery and Herrigel's meeting with its teacher -- Becoming a disciple -- Breathing -- The release -- Purposefulness and purposelessness -- The target in the dark -- The riddle of "It" -- Dissecting the myth -- The spread of Zen in the Art of Archery -- The moment the myth was born -- What is Japanese archery? -- The great doctrine of the way of shooting -- What Herrigel studied -- The erased history -- The blank slate -- Herrigel's early years -- The Japanese in Heidelberg -- Homecoming and the Nazis -- From the end of the war to retirement -- Are rock gardens really pretty? -- From the "tiger cubs crossing the river" to the "higher self" -- The neglected rock garden -- The rock garden in textbooks -- Unsightly stones and a weeping cherry tree -- Shiga Naoya and Murō Saisei -- Are rock gardens pretty? -- Popularization and the expression of Zen -- Proof of beauty -- Looking at the mirror's reflection -- Another Japan experience -- Bruno Taut and Ryōanji -- The people who introduced Zen and Ryōanji to the West -- Isamu Noguchi -- How Zen in the Art of Archery and Ryōanji were received -- Does Zen stink? -- Kyūdō, Zen, and the Olympics -- I knew it! it's Zen! -- Postscript -- Translator's afterword -- Appendix: Herrigel's "defense" -- Kanji for personal names -- Kanji for Japanese terms.
Between the real and the fake -- The kitschy world of "Zen in/and the art of . . ." -- The rock garden in New York -- The moving borderline -- The mystery of Zen in the Art of Archery -- The beginning of the story -- Spiritual archery and Herrigel's meeting with its teacher -- Becoming a disciple -- Breathing -- The release -- Purposefulness and purposelessness -- The target in the dark -- The riddle of "It" -- Dissecting the myth -- The spread of Zen in the Art of Archery -- The moment the myth was born -- What is Japanese archery? -- The great doctrine of the way of shooting -- What Herrigel studied -- The erased history -- The blank slate -- Herrigel's early years -- The Japanese in Heidelberg -- Homecoming and the Nazis -- From the end of the war to retirement -- Are rock gardens really pretty? -- From the "tiger cubs crossing the river" to the "higher self" -- The neglected rock garden -- The rock garden in textbooks -- Unsightly stones and a weeping cherry tree -- Shiga Naoya and Murō Saisei -- Are rock gardens pretty? -- Popularization and the expression of Zen -- Proof of beauty -- Looking at the mirror's reflection -- Another Japan experience -- Bruno Taut and Ryōanji -- The people who introduced Zen and Ryōanji to the West -- Isamu Noguchi -- How Zen in the Art of Archery and Ryōanji were received -- Does Zen stink? -- Kyūdō, Zen, and the Olympics -- I knew it! it's Zen! -- Postscript -- Translator's afterword -- Appendix: Herrigel's "defense" -- Kanji for personal names -- Kanji for Japanese terms.
Beschreibung:Vorlageform des Originaltitels: Zen to yū na no Nihon-maru
Beschreibung:VIII, 290 S.
Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:9780226947648
978-0-226-94764-8
0226947645
0-226-94764-5