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Review of Sherry D. Fowler's Muroji: Rearranging Art and History at a Japanese Buddhist Temple and Gregory Levine's Daitokuji: The Visual Cultures of a Zen Monastery (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. forthcoming.
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Time and temporality in the gardenIn Dan O'Brien (ed.), Gardening - Philosophy for Everyone: Cultivating Wisdom, Wiley-blackwell. 2010.
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20“A Matter of Life and Death”: Kawabata on the Value of Art after the Atomic BombingsJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 72 (3): 261-275. 2014.This article explores the possible interpretations—and the implications of those interpretations—of a comment about the importance of art made by Yasunari Kawabata (1899–1972), later the first Japanese Nobel laureate for literature: that “looking at old works of art is a matter of life and death.” (In 1949, Kawabata visited Hiroshima in his capacity as president of the Japan literary society P.E.N. to inspect the damage caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima that helped end World War II. On h…Read more
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Review of A Philosophy of Gardens by David E Cooper (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. forthcoming.
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72Canons and the Challenge of GenderThe Monist 76 (4): 477-493. 1993.Examines the role of the gender of philosopher-contributors in the constitution of a philosophical canon. Effects of the inclusion of women's voices within the canon; Development of a Japanese philosophical canon as a case in point.
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60The Garden as an ArtState University of New York Press. 1993.In this book Miller challenges contemporary aesthetic theory to include gardens in an expanded definition of art.
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841Genji’s Gardens: From Symbolism to Personal Expression and Emotion: Gardens and Garden Design in The Tale of GenjiIn Santangelo & Tamburello Giusi Paolo (ed.), States of Mind in Asia, Santangelo, Paolo & Giusi Tamburello. pp. 105-141. 2012.
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Review of Japanese Masters of the Brush: Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran by Felice Fischer with Kyoko Kinoshita (review)College Art Association on-Line Reviews 12 (34): 1-6. 2008.
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67Gardens as works of art: The problem of uniquenessBritish Journal of Aesthetics 26 (3): 252-256. 1986.
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1Aesthetics as Investigation of Self, Subject, and Ethical Agency under Trauma in Kawabata's Post-War Novel The Sound of the MountainPhilosophy and Literature. forthcoming.Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952 novel The Sound of the Mountain is widely praised for its aesthetic qualities, from its adaptation of aesthetics from the Tale of Genji, through the beauty of its prose and the patterning of its images, to the references to arts and nature within the text. This article, by contrast, shows that Kawabata uses these features to demonstrate the effects of the mass trauma following the Second World War and the complicated grief it induced, on the psychology of moral/ethical u…Read more
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700Identity, Identification, and Temperament in Emblematic Portraits of in Edo Japanese Literati Artists Taiga & Gyokuran: A Philosophical and Theoretical Analysis of the Ming-Qing LegacyMingQing Yanjiu (MingQing Studies) 65-116. 2007.
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12 Reasons the atomic bombings of Japan should be taughtHonolulu Star Advertiser 8 (08): 2012. 2012.
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Exhibition and Symposium Review of Literati Modern: Bunjinga from Late-Edo to Twentieth-Century JapanCollege Art Association on-Line Reviews. forthcoming.
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432Review of Denis Dutton's The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 67 (3): 333-336. 2009.
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9Denis Dutton’s The Art Instinct and the Recovery of Ainu AestheticsPhilosophy and Literature 38 (1A). 2014.Denis Dutton’s The Art Instinct provides a useful framework for analyzing the aesthetics of the Ainu, a small-scale society in northern Japan. In a recent study at Hokkaido University, Ainu artists replicated old, museum-quality Ainu works and reported on their selection, study of the works, replication processes, and discussions with other artists. The replication illustrates the importance of intention in determining the authenticity of works of art, while the artists’ comments demonstrate the…Read more
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2089Japanese Aesthetics - Ch. 23In Jay Garfield, William Edelglass & Koji Tanaka (eds.), Oxford Handbook of World Philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 317-333. 2010.
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The Garden as a Work of ArtDissertation, Yale University. 1987.This study is an examination of gardens from the perspective of philosophy of art. Since gardens combine natural and constructed elements, utilize both existing and newly created environments, and engage visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory and kinesthetic senses, they provide an opportunity to explore the concept of art and to test the boundaries, usefulness, and general validity of the concept of art. ;In many cultures, gardens are works of art on a par with painting, architecture, and poetry.…Read more
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Japanese Literary Aesthetics Today: Rewriting the Traditional in the Post-Atomic WorldApa Newsletter on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies 11 (2). 2012.
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Social Studies Education is More Important Than EverHonolulu Star Advertiser, Aug. 1, 2011 22 (22): 22. 2011.