- Theater, History and criticism, Japanese Aesthetics, Japanese literature
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Classical in form, earnest, cool and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Donald Keene
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 133
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press, Columbia Universtity Press
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English, Russian
- ISBN
- 9780231067379
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First sentence
“IT WOULD BE difficult to describe adequately in the course of a few pages the full range of Japanese aesthetics or even to suggest the main features of Japanese taste as it has evolved over the centuries.”
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