This is the first English translation of a text outlining a distinctively plebian Japanese aesthetic based on a unique category of taste, "iki"

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In this book, Graham Mayeda demonstrates how Watsuji Tetsuro and Kuki Shuzo, two twentieth-century Japanese philosophers, criticize and interpret Heideggerian p

Kuki Shûzô (1888–1941), one of Japan’s most original thinkers of the twentieth century, is best known for his interpretations of Western Continental philo

The tea ceremony and the martial arts are intimately linked in the popular and historical imagination with Zen Buddhism, and Japanese culture. They are commonly