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books about/written at taisho era, japan embracing western culture especially the arts and theatre (pic related is sakura wars which takes place during taisho era- books with similar atmosphere)

>> No.17299658

>>17299643
>japan embracing western culture
cringe

>> No.17299665

>>17299658
nigga i ask for recommendations not your opinion on the matter

>> No.17300032

interesting question; bump

>> No.17300046

Junichiro Tanizaki, Naomi

>> No.17300765

Spring Snow

>> No.17301691
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>>17299643

Books about Japan hating the third dimension? This is obvious in their video games, the third dimension is never integrated as a just another parameter analogous to the first and second, instead included in a seemingly cynical begrudging manner, as if mocking Western games.

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>>17299643
Pic related is a short and surprisingly funny essay on westernization.
>>17301691
The illusion of a third dimension in art via perspective is a product of western linear-visual culture and the phonetic alphabet, something that never existed in Japan or China.

>> No.17301749

>>17301717
yes i read part of it but forgot why i stopped. naomi looks interesting and i guess ill end up reading the other tanizaki books

>> No.17301831

>>17299643
I'm also very interested in the Taisho, but there are disappointingly few books written about it in English, fiction or non-fiction.

>>17301717
Tanizaki even says traditional Japanese outhouses are better than Western toilets.

>> No.17302684

>>17299643
Check out Chrysanthemum and the sword

>> No.17303048

I don’t understand. How can people that live in 3 dimensions hate one of those dimensions?

>> No.17303094

check out nishida kitaro and the kyoto school

>> No.17303352

>>17303048
If they don't have the Faustian spirit necessary to abstractly think in three dimensions, it's no wonder that the third dimension does not appear in Japanese art so much.