Ryokan's World: New Edition, Taishukan Publishing

Ryokan's World, New Edition, Taishukan Shoten

Ryokan theory by 10 authorities from various fields such as calligraphy, the world of poetry, and the Buddhist sect, as well as a discussion on Ryokan as a representative calligrapher of early modern Japan. Pursuing everything about the human Ryokan.

Table of Contents

・Ryokan's Person and Poems (Shuji Miyazawa)
・Solitary Calligraphy (Tomohiko Horie)
・Ryokan Miscellany (Setsumura Uno)
・Ryokan in Buddhist Thought (Toshiyuki Iida)
・On Buddhist Virtue (Yozo Hasegawa)
・Dialogue: The Beauty of Negative Space (Mishima Murakami / Suitei Kawaguchi)
　The Idea of Characters / Brushwork and Paper / Amateurs and Experts / The Beauty of Negative Space
・A Study of Ryokan's Biography (Toshiro Tanigawa)
・Dogen and Ryokan (Akira Kuno)
・Ryokan's View of Life and Death (Takado Kawamura)
・The Ascetic Monk of Tamashima (Akijun Yoshikawa)
・A Mass of Education (Kiichi Kato)
・Roundtable Discussion: Tradition and Ryokan (Sogen Eguchi / Shingyo Ozawa / Seihou Kanno / Suitei Murakami / Koho Arita)
・Encounter with Calligraphy / Universality of Beauty / Calligraphy of Free Will / Tradition and Form / Ryokan and Kanna Suo / Ryokan, the Uniqueness of His Calligraphy / Re-evaluation in the History of Calligraphy
・Roundtable Discussion: Modernity and Ryokan (Tekigai Aikawa / Kinryu Asami / Shodo Kato / Seifu Ogura / Gasei Komai / Kiichi Kato)
Japanese Painting Sentiment / Ryokan and the Younger Generation / The Mystery of "Ma" (Space) and "Line" / The World of Exhibition Art / The Direction and Outlook of Enlightenment Calligraphy / A Free Spirit of the Edo Period
・List of Major References

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