Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture by Eiko Ikegami

Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture

Eiko Ikegami

480 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction art history informative reflective relaxing medium-paced
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In this path breaking book, Eiko Ikegami uncovers a complex history of social life in which aesthetic images became central to Japan's cultural identities. The people of premodern Japan built on earlier aesthetic traditions in part for their own s...

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