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Jump to navigationJump to search| Author | Jun'ichirō Tanizaki |
|---|---|
| Original title | 陰翳礼讃 (In'ei Raisan) |
| Translator | Thomas J. Harper and Edward G. Seidensticker |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Genre | Philosophy |
| 1933[1] | |
Published in English | 1977[1] |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 73 |
In Praise of Shadows (陰翳礼讃In'ei Raisan) is an essay on Japanese aesthetics by the Japanese author and novelist Jun'ichirō Tanizaki. It was translated into English by the academic students of Japanese literature, Thomas Harper and Edward Seidensticker. A new translation by Gregory Starr was published in December 2017.
Publication[edit]
Already sketched out in a series of comments that appear in Some Prefer Nettles, Tanizaki's aesthetic credo, in the more finished form of this essay, was originally published in 1933 in Japanese. The English translation was published in 1977 by Leete's Island Books.[1]
The translation contains a foreword by architect and educator Charles Moore and an afterword by one of the translators, Thomas J. Harper. Harper was Senior Lecturer in Japanese Literature at the Australian National University in Canberra. The other translator, Edward Seidensticker, was Professor of Japanese Literature at Columbia University.
Much shorter than the author's novels, this book is a small meditative work of 73 pages, of which 59 are the essay itself.
A new English translation by Gregory Starr, with illustrations and photographs by Andrew Pothecary, was published by Sora Books in December, 2017. The 102-page edition also includes a foreword by the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma and an afterword by Japanese literature Professor Eve Zimmerman of Wellesley College.[2]
Themes[edit]
The essay consists of 16 sections that discuss traditional Japanese aesthetics in contrast with change. Comparisons of light with darkness are used to contrast Western and Asian cultures. The West, in its striving for progress, is presented as continuously searching for light and clarity, while the subtle and subdued forms of oriental art and literature are seen by Tanizaki to represent an appreciation of shadow and subtlety, closely relating to the traditional Japanese concept of sabi. In addition to contrasting light and dark, Tanizaki further considers the layered tones of various kinds of shadows and their power to reflect low sheen materials like gold embroidery, patina and cloudy crystals. In addition, he distinguishes between the values of gleam and shine.
The text presents personal reflections on topics as diverse as architecture and its fittings, crafts, finishes, jade, food, cosmetics and mono no aware (the art of impermanence). Tanizaki explores in close description the use of space in buildings, lacquerware by candlelight,[1] monastery toilets[3] and women in the dark of a brothel. The essay acts as 'a classic description of the collision between the shadows of traditional Japanese interiors and the dazzling light of the modern age'.[attribution needed][4]
In the Sora Books edition, the 16 section themes are:
- On construction
- The toilet aesthetic
- A different course
- A novelist's daydreams
- On paper, tin and dirt
- Candlelight and lacquerware
- Bowls of broth
- The enigma of shadows
- An uncanny silence
- Reflections in darkness
- Shadows on the stage
- The woman of old
- Beauty in the dark
- A world of shadows
- A cool breeze in total darkness
- Final grumblings
Cultural notes[edit]
Tanizaki's observations include cultural notes on topics such as arts and crafts, paper making, lacquerware design and the Japanese room. He gives a recipe for the unusual dish of Persimmon leaf Sushi on pages 60 to 62. He also refers to many historic places and temples, as well as celebrated eateries of the day, along with customs like 'moon-viewing' (tsukimi).
Featured individuals[edit]
Among the historic and contemporary individuals mentioned in the essay are:[5]
- Natsume Sōseki, novelist, on the experience of textures and landscape via the traditional Japanese toilet, p. 9; Sōseki's Pillow of Grass, p. 26.
- Saitō Ryokuu, poet quoted as saying 'elegance is frigid', p. 10.
- Buddha and Confucius, p. 16.
- Kongō Iwao, Nō actor, p. 39.
- Baikō, aging Kabuki actor, p. 43.
- Takebaya Sanehiko, president of Kaizō Publishing House (which had published Tanizaki's earlier novel Quicksand), p. 54.
- Albert Einstein, scientist, p. 54.
Reception[edit]
The work has been praised for its insight and relevance into issues of modernity and culture,[6] and Tanizaki has been called an 'ecological prophet'.[6]A. C. Grayling has described Tanizaki's essay on Japanese taste as a 'hymn to nuance' and an exercise in mindfulness.[1]
Junichiro Tanizaki selects for praise all things delicate and nuanced, everything softened by shadows and the patina of age, anything understated and natural—as for example the patterns of grain in old wood, the sound of rain dripping from eaves and leaves, or washing over the footing of a stone lantern in a garden, and refreshing the moss that grows about it – and by doing so he suggests an attitude of appreciation and mindfulness, especially mindfulness of beauty, as central to life lived well.[1]
In the spirit of Tanizaki juxtaposing the cultures of east and west, Grayling notes a link to a similar approach and emphasis in the British writer Walter Pater whose late Renaissance essay he quotes, 'The service of speculative culture towards the human spirit is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation'. Grayling concludes that the difference between the two essayists lies in the 'tranquility' of Tanizaki and the 'intensity' of Pater.[1]Program sarjana separuh masa uthm.
In 2001, Random House published a reprint in paperback.[7]
Regarding the new translation published by Sora Books, David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas, wrote, 'A rhapsodic meditation on a vanishing world, its aesthetics and its values. Gregory Starr's new translation is pitch perfect and transparent.' Stephen Mansfield, in the Japan Times wrote, 'Tanizaki, in Gregory Starr’s new and highly accomplished translation, samples a number of instances where the use and perception of light differs from the West, noting that, where Western paper reflects light, traditional Japanese paper absorbs it.'[8]
References[edit]
- ^ abcdefgGrayling, A. C. (October 5, 2002). 'Rereadings: AC Grayling on a fine study of Japanese aesthetics'. Privy Counsels. The Guardian. Retrieved 8 November 2008.
- ^http://www.sorabooksjapan.com/inpraiseofshadows.html
- ^Grayling, A.C. (October 5, 2002). 'Rereadings: A. C. Grayling on a fine study of Japanese aesthetics'. Privy Counsels. The Guardian. Retrieved 8 November 2008.
Readers of Tanizaki are variously startled or entertained to find that his essay on the delights of what is muted, enclosed and refined by shadows, begins with a paean to the lavatories found in Japanese monasteries
- ^Jacket notes, Vintage Classics 2001 edn.
- ^Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1933). In Praise of Shadows.
- ^ abSowin, Joshua (23 September 2008). 'In Praise of Shadows: A Meditation'. Fire and Knowledge. Retrieved 8 November 2008.External link in
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- ^https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2018/02/17/books/darkness-aside-beauty-exists-tanizakis-shadows/#.WpIgyoKYOV4
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An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. The book also includes descriptions of laquerware under candlelight, and women in the darkness of the house of pleasure.
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Το εγκώμιο της σκιάς είναι ένα μικρό,περιεκτικό και ουσιώδες βιβλίο που θα μπορούσε να χαρακτηριστεί και ως εγχειρίδιο αισθητικής στα παραδοσιακά ιδεώδη της Ανατολής.
Ενα δοκίμιο απόρριψης κάθε επιφανειακής δυτικοποιημένης εξέλιξης.
Μια καλογραμμένη έκθεση πάνω σε ανατολίτικο μετάξι με σκούρες αποχρώσεις ιδεών και όνειρα μέσα σε ομίχλες σκιών,σκοτάδι,ασάφεια,παρωχημένη αισθητική αντίληψη και γοητεία νηφαλιότητας.
Η σκουριά και η μουντή παλαιωμένη πατίνα του χρόνου,παράλληλα με το αμυδρό και το μ..more
Ενα δοκίμιο απόρριψης κάθε επιφανειακής δυτικοποιημένης εξέλιξης.
Μια καλογραμμένη έκθεση πάνω σε ανατολίτικο μετάξι με σκούρες αποχρώσεις ιδεών και όνειρα μέσα σε ομίχλες σκιών,σκοτάδι,ασάφεια,παρωχημένη αισθητική αντίληψη και γοητεία νηφαλιότητας.
Η σκουριά και η μουντή παλαιωμένη πατίνα του χρόνου,παράλληλα με το αμυδρό και το μ..more
Sep 20, 2015Florencia rated it really liked it
The preference for a pensive luster to a shallow brilliance.
My quiet, soothingly minimalistic room seems of no consequence when juxtaposed with the unearthly beauty that Jun'ichirō Tanizaki described in this splendid essay on aesthetics.
A shōji. Lightning. Electric fans. The right heating system. Architecture. Food.
Every detail to avoid the disruption of harmony in a Japanese room.
An almost imperceptible line between an extremely refine taste and the subtlety of irony.
Jul 22, 2015Dolors rated it really liked itMy quiet, soothingly minimalistic room seems of no consequence when juxtaposed with the unearthly beauty that Jun'ichirō Tanizaki described in this splendid essay on aesthetics.
A shōji. Lightning. Electric fans. The right heating system. Architecture. Food.
Every detail to avoid the disruption of harmony in a Japanese room.
An almost imperceptible line between an extremely refine taste and the subtlety of irony.
We delight in the mere si..more
Shelves: read-in-2015, asian
A delightful essay on the ethos of Japanese aesthetics, its “frigid elegance” and its ancestral raison d’etre. Thanks to Tanizaki’s unadorned yet carefully layered prose I start to grasp the importance of natural materials like worn-out wood or paper lanterns, or the preference for dim lighted rooms and tarnished tableware that lack the aggressive glitter of metal or the aseptic whiteness of tiles of modern houses. It’s in the musky darkness that shrouds the bare room, devoid of artificial ornam..more
Jul 21, 2014Praj rated it really liked it
“We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.”
** Kage-e illustrations - Japanese shadow art from the Edo period (woodblock print)
Have you ever stomped on your shadow, trying to hold its torso with your feet? The subtle chase between you and the devious shadow; toughening with every stomp on the dried grey asphalt while queries of whether you have lost your marbles looming in the humid air. Deer pranc..more
** Kage-e illustrations - Japanese shadow art from the Edo period (woodblock print)
Have you ever stomped on your shadow, trying to hold its torso with your feet? The subtle chase between you and the devious shadow; toughening with every stomp on the dried grey asphalt while queries of whether you have lost your marbles looming in the humid air. Deer pranc..more
Jul 22, 2016Steven Godin rated it really liked it · review of another edition
In this delightful essay Junichiro Tanizaki looks at Japanese aesthetics, and selects praise for all things delicate and nuanced, everything softened by shadows, and the patina of age, anything understated and simply natural, for instance the patterns of grain in old wood, the sound of rain falling from leaves, or washing over the footing of a stone lantern in a garden, and refreshing the moss that grows around it, and by doing so he suggests an attitude of appreciation and mindfulness, especial..more
Aug 27, 2015Susan Budd rated it it was amazing Shelves: japanese-literature
In this little book, Junichiro Tanizaki helped me understand why I ~ a thorough Westerner, NYC born & bred ~ am so drawn to the Japanese aesthetic. He begins his essay with an example I can totally relate to. Many Japanese people take pains to hide electrical wires because they don’t want to spoil the beauty of the traditional decor. I so get this. I wish I could hide all my electrical wires too. There are so many of them, not to mention all the LED lights from appliances that once were luxu..more
Jul 22, 2014Steve added it
The quality that we call beauty .. must always grow from the realities of life.
In Praise of Shadows, written by the well known Japanese novelist Tanizaki Jun'ichirō (1886-1965) in 1933, is a particularly charming and discursive rumination on the differences between Japanese (indeed, East Asian) and occidental aesthetics (among other matters). It is also an illustration of the differences between the Japanese tradition of zuihitsu ('to follow the brush'), of which In Praise of Shadows is a most..more
Shelves: non-fiction, phil-s-osophy, l-art-pour-l-art, oldboy
Ένα άκρως γοητευτικό δοκίμιο ή καλύτερα ένα εγκώμιο της σκιάς που παίζει καθοριστικό ρόλο στην ιαπωνική κουλτούρα. Ο Τανιζάκι εκθέτει την άποψη του για την φύση της ομορφιάς, για την αρχιτεκτονική, την διακόσμηση, τα σκεύη καθημερινής χρήσης, το θέατρο (ήξερα μονο το θέατρο Καμπούκι αλλα έμαθα και για το θέατρο Νο που διατηρεί την ατμόσφαιρα και τα μέσα παλαιότερων εποχών εστιάζοντας στην ααποτύπωση της πραγματικότητας χωρίς φτιασίδια).
‘’ Η ομορφιά δεν βρίσκεται μέσα στο ίδιο το πράγμα, αλλα γεν..more
‘’ Η ομορφιά δεν βρίσκεται μέσα στο ίδιο το πράγμα, αλλα γεν..more
Aug 29, 2018Anastasia rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Σε έναν κόσμο που έχει ανάγει τη Δύση και τις συνήθειές της σε πρότυπο και αναζητεί την πολυτέλεια και την ομορφιά στα φανταχτερά αντικείμενα και στις γυαλάδες τους, που προσπαθεί να εξαλείψει κάθε σκιά και να αποφύγει με κάθε τρόπο το σκοτάδι, ο Τανιζάκι φανερώνει τη μαγεία των σκιών. Ο Ιάπωνας συγγραφέας πραγματεύεται τις αμέτρητες ποιότητες που μπορεί να προκαλέσει το παιχνίδι του ελάχιστου φωτός μέσα σε έναν σκοτεινό χώρο και τις αισθήσεις που μπορεί να αφυπνίσει, ενώ ταυτόχρονα νοσταλγεί ει..more
Jul 11, 2011Hadrian rated it really liked it Shelves: japan, philosophy, art-music-architecture-etc, nonfiction
In Praise of Shadows is an essay on beauty. It is less of a meditation but more of an unfocused sequence of thoughts. Tanizaki talks about wooden furniture, subdued lighting, lacquer-work, Noh plays, and the pleasure of taking good shits.
Tanizaki prefers obscure and hidden things to those directly revealed. He likes rural things, shadowy things, dirty things. He's not exactly a crusty reactionary here, but someone who wants to return something lost, obscure and concealed.
Tanizaki, a product of..more
Tanizaki prefers obscure and hidden things to those directly revealed. He likes rural things, shadowy things, dirty things. He's not exactly a crusty reactionary here, but someone who wants to return something lost, obscure and concealed.
Tanizaki, a product of..more
Apr 06, 2019Yücel added it · review of another edition
“Gölgeye Övgü” adından da anlaşılacağı gibi gölgeye, gereği kadar olan ışığa ve bunların bulunduğu ortamı adeta bir sanat eseri haline getirişine dair yazılmış bir deneme. Geleneksel bir Japon evinin yapılışında ışığın - gölgenin dengelenmesinden tutun, basit bir evdeki dekorasyonel oyukların nasıl gölgelendirilmesi - ışıklandırılması gerektiğine kadar, No Tiyatrosundan Kabuki Tiyatrosuna gölgenin önemine kadar daha birçok konuda Tanizaki’nin görüşlerini okuyoruz. Tanizaki’nin bu konuyu yıllarca..more
Jul 29, 2013Zanna rated it it was amazing
The quality that we call beauty must always grow from the realities of life, and our ancestors, forced to live in dark rooms, presently came to discover beauty in shadows, ultimately to guide shadows towards beauty's ends
(If you don't have time to read the whole of my review, go ahead and skip the next two paragraphs)
There is a practice essay prompt in the US College Board's guide to the SAT book that goes something like 'Do changes that make our lives easier always make them better?'. This is o..more
Jul 26, 2017صان rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
بسیار جذاب! پر از ایدههای معماری و زیباییشناختی بر اساس فرهنگ ژاپن!
خوندنش بسیار لذتبخش بود...more
خوندنش بسیار لذتبخش بود...more
Jan 10, 2017howl of minerva rated it it was ok
Sort of a Japanese Grandpa Simpson. Kids these days, no respect. Art these days, total crap. Food these days, inedible. It's all go go go. It's all electric lights and gramophones. What happened to sitting in the dark, poking yourself in the eye with a stick? Kids are too good for that now. Things were so much better before refrigeration and antibiotics. People used to have time for things, people used to care, people used to have pride. Bla bla bla. Said every generation ever. Bonus star for br..more
May 15, 2019Nehirin~ rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Tanizaki Gölgeye Övgü'de, geleneksel Japon estetik anlayışının her alanda gölgenin o tatlı loşluğuna gizlenerek nasıl çekici nüanslar yarattığını muhteşem bir üslûpla tasvir etmiş. Zaman zaman abartılı ya da aykırı bulunabilecek karşılaştırmalar ya da anlatımlar olsa da gölgenin sunduğu hoş loşluğun, serinliğin özlemini tümüyle hissettiriyor.
Modern aydınlatmanın Doğu'ya, Japonya'ya özgü o güzel loşluğu yavaş yavaş nasıl erittiğini hissetmek hüzün veriyor.
Tanizaki kelimelere hâkim usta bir yazar...more
Mar 27, 2009Brian rated it it was amazing · review of another editionModern aydınlatmanın Doğu'ya, Japonya'ya özgü o güzel loşluğu yavaş yavaş nasıl erittiğini hissetmek hüzün veriyor.
Tanizaki kelimelere hâkim usta bir yazar...more
Shelves: read-2009, asian
In the west people tend to emphasize light in their environment.. big windows, skylights. Shiny, gleaming surfaces are important and appear clean and fresh. Tanizaki wrote this short book to explain the importance of shadow and darkness in oriental culture.. shadows that have been chased away with the welcomed technology of the west.
This is an essay on the aesthetics of shadows, on some of the differences between the west and the east. Tanizaki's text flows from one topic to another almost dre..more
This is an essay on the aesthetics of shadows, on some of the differences between the west and the east. Tanizaki's text flows from one topic to another almost dre..more
Dec 11, 2015Ahmed Almawali rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
من حسناتِ الكتبِ وما أكثرَ حسناتُها أنها تسحبُ بعضَها بعضًا وكلُّ واحدةٍ تدلُّ على الأخرى وتقودُ إليها، عرفتُ هذا الكتابَ بل وتعرفتُ على الروائي الياباني الفذ تانيزاكي من كتابِ الديب 'عصيرُ الكتبِ' وتعمدتُ أن أتجاوزَ مقالتَه ومراجعتَه حولَ مديحِ ظل تانيزاكي كي لا يفسدَ عليَّ متعةَ اكتشافِ الكتابِ. للظل قدسيتُه ومكانتُه، بل وللذوقِ الياباني تفردُه، العمرانُ بكل تفصيلاتِه الدقيقةِ إضاءاته وخفوتها، كذلك لونُ البشرة وسحنتُها، المسرح .. يبحث عن الأصالةِ اليابانيةِ في مختلفِ مفرداتِ الفردِ حتى لا يخت..more
Sep 19, 2017Sandra rated it did not like it · review of another edition Shelves: 2017, português, non-fiction, unhaul, 1-star
Mas o que raio foi isto?
Eu a 10 páginas de ter iniciado o livro só pensava 'não! Este livro tem de ser mais que isto. Não pode, não pode continuar assim!'
Mas não. O livro continuou na mesma veia desinteressante.
Basicamente o autor compara a importância que a sombra ou as sombras possuem na sua cultura com a importância quase inexistente que as mesmas possuem no mundo ocidental moderno.
Chegou ao ponto de falar em RETRETES! E comparar as retretes orientais com as ocidentais.
Não estou a enganar-me...more
Eu a 10 páginas de ter iniciado o livro só pensava 'não! Este livro tem de ser mais que isto. Não pode, não pode continuar assim!'
Mas não. O livro continuou na mesma veia desinteressante.
Basicamente o autor compara a importância que a sombra ou as sombras possuem na sua cultura com a importância quase inexistente que as mesmas possuem no mundo ocidental moderno.
Chegou ao ponto de falar em RETRETES! E comparar as retretes orientais com as ocidentais.
Não estou a enganar-me...more
Mar 22, 2013مروان البلوشي rated it really liked it
لعل هاروكي موراكامي، وياسوناري كاواباتا، ويوكيو ميشيما هم أشهر أدباء اليابان في العالم العربي. ولكن الفرصة لم تسنح للقارئ العربي للتعرف على جانيتشيرو تانيزاكي وهو روائي ياباني لا يقل في مكانته أو مستواه عن الآخرين. بل إن الكثيرين من عشاق وخبراء الأدب الياباني يختارون روايته 'الأخوات ماكيوكا' كأفضل رواية يابانية في القرن العشرين.
أما الكتاب الذي بين ايدينا والمعنون بـ'مديح الظل' فهو عبارة عن مقال مطول (48 صفحة) كتبه تانيزاكي عن موضوع أثار اهتمامه لفترة طويلة وهو: الفارق بين مفهوم الجمال عند اليابا..more
Apr 16, 2019kübraterzi rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
'Eğer Japon evinin çatısı bir şemsiye ise Batı'daki evin çatısı bir şapkadan öteye geçmez'. Tanizaki için Doğu-Batı sorunsalı çok büyük bir dert. Bunun üzerine bütün bilgi birikimini de dahil edip bu denemeyi yazmış. Ancak bu kitaba deneme deyip geçmek de çok büyük haksızlık olur. Pek çok konuda(gerek tuvalet mimarisi gerek Japon kadınları üzerine) gölge ve karanlıktan bahsetmiş.
Japonların dünya çapında hayran olunan bir millet olmasının başında 'güzelliği şeyin kendisinde değil karanlığın içind..more
Japonların dünya çapında hayran olunan bir millet olmasının başında 'güzelliği şeyin kendisinde değil karanlığın içind..more
Mar 31, 2019Hulyacln rated it really liked it · review of another edition
“Eskimeyenin karşısında bir tür korku duymadınız mı hiç; zamanın geçtiğine dair bilincinizi kaybedeceğiniz, sayısız yılların geçeceği ve kendinize geldiğinizde kendinizi yaşlanmış ve saçlarınızı beyazlamış bulacağınız korkusunu?”
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Tanizaki demek tutku demek benim için. Bir tiyatroda oyuncunun uzun, dökümlü elbisesinden ellerini görüp hayran kalabilecek kadar tutkulu. Yaşadığı evin her santimini düşünüp, kullandığı mürekkebin dokusunu duyumsayacak kadar tutkulu.
Roman ve öykülerindeki ele avuca s..more
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Tanizaki demek tutku demek benim için. Bir tiyatroda oyuncunun uzun, dökümlü elbisesinden ellerini görüp hayran kalabilecek kadar tutkulu. Yaşadığı evin her santimini düşünüp, kullandığı mürekkebin dokusunu duyumsayacak kadar tutkulu.
Roman ve öykülerindeki ele avuca s..more
Apr 03, 2017George K. rated it really liked it
Ο Τανιζάκι είναι ένα από τα μεγαλύτερα ονόματα της Ιαπωνικής λογοτεχνίας και το μικρό αυτό βιβλιαράκι είναι μάλλον το πιο πολυδιαβασμένο έργο του. Η Ιαπωνική κουλτούρα είναι μια από αυτές που σέβομαι και εκτιμώ και είναι πάντα απόλαυση να διαβάζω απόψεις και αντιλήψεις γύρω από αυτήν, πόσο μάλλον όταν εκφράζονται από έναν μεγάλο Ιάπωνα συγγραφέα.
Εδώ ο συγγραφέας παραθέτει ουσιαστικά την αντίληψή του για την ομορφιά της γιαπωνέζικης και κατ'επέκταση της ανατολίτικης αισθητικής στις τέχνες αλλά κα..more
Εδώ ο συγγραφέας παραθέτει ουσιαστικά την αντίληψή του για την ομορφιά της γιαπωνέζικης και κατ'επέκταση της ανατολίτικης αισθητικής στις τέχνες αλλά κα..more
Mar 26, 2014Zadignose rated it it was ok
A backward, reactionary, nationalistic prose piece disguised as an essay on aesthetics, which engages in strange speculation and musing that is not at all well supported. But it gets better towards the end when its cantankerousness and hyperbole get amusing, and it does ultimately manage to express a mournful nostalgia for a dying aesthetic, even if that aesthetic is more of a personal aesthetic than the author admits, rather than being an expression of national character.
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I always like a book that changes the way I see the world. As a Westerner who likes LIGHT more LIGHT, this praise of shadows, the dusky atmosphere of the past and architecture which protects and conceals, where mystery is held, reborn, is a peripheral vision of existence I'd never imagined. It's been a year or so since I read it--but I still recall his image of enamelwork which is garish and awful in broad daylight, but has incredible beauty and charm in low light--which is not a defect, as we w..more
If Tanizaki had written this book from a Westerner's perspective, the essay would be regarded as retrograde and pessimistically nostalgic. To be sure, only a highly-evolved culture is capable of a reciprocal relationship between production and appreciation. A wholesale dismissal of progress, however, is no way to get there. Tanizaki's rejectionist attitude is a perfect one to adopt if you're interested in sabotaging your potentially sensitive, agreeable, harmonic future.
May 02, 2019Gabril rated it really liked it · review of another edition
“In verità, non esistono né segreti, nei misteri: tutto è magia dell’ombra.”
Tanizaki riflette su una delle differenze fondamentali tra Oriente e Occidente, il rapporto tra luce e ombra.
La modernità nel mondo occidentale nasce con le rivoluzioni industriali e in particolare, a fine 800, con la seconda che ebbe il vanto di illuminare a giorno le città con la luce elettrica, gettando le basi per l’espansione delle metropoli che abbiamo visto crescere fino agli eccessi attuali.
La critica dello scri..more
Tanizaki riflette su una delle differenze fondamentali tra Oriente e Occidente, il rapporto tra luce e ombra.
La modernità nel mondo occidentale nasce con le rivoluzioni industriali e in particolare, a fine 800, con la seconda che ebbe il vanto di illuminare a giorno le città con la luce elettrica, gettando le basi per l’espansione delle metropoli che abbiamo visto crescere fino agli eccessi attuali.
La critica dello scri..more
Nov 25, 2017Inderjit Sanghera rated it it was amazing
A treatise on Japanese aesthetics, by turns playful and profound, facetious and funereal, brimming with beauty, 'In Praise of Shadows' is the jewel in Tanizaki's oeuvre, a kind of paean to Japanese concepts of beauty, of darkness, shadows and reflection, of contemplation and calm, of the dazzling reflections of gold in a darkened room, whose low ceilings accentuated the shades of shadow, from sable to grey, which imbued Japanese houses with an elegance which was lacking in light-obsessed Western..more
Jul 15, 2016Anatoly rated it liked it
El Elogio De La Sombra Resumen
After reading about the concept of Wabi-Sabi in Leonard Koren`s book Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers it was only natural to continue with this essay. Again this was very enriching, but this one was a lot more poetic and captivating. The descriptions are vivid and are beautifully written, which is not simple when writing about Japanese aesthetics (though the essence of this concept is actually the beauty that is in the simple and fleeting things). ..more
Mar 12, 2014Mamdouh Abdullah rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
بعد الحرب العالمية الثانية، حين تغيرت طبيعة نظام الأعمال في اليابان وحدث تغير حقيقي في مجالات عديدة من مجالات الحياة، حدث نوع من الفقد لا يمكن تعويضه. على الرغم من أن الأشياء التي فقدت بسبب التطور الحضاري، حل محلها أشياء أفضل منها وأكثر كفاءة في العمل والحركة والنقل إلا أن الآثار البسيطة، أو التفاصيل البسيطة التي كانت تحمل غنى روحي وثقافي، بل وجمالي لا يمكن أن تعوض. في مقالة مديح الظل للروائي الياباني جونيتشيرو تانازاكي يتساءل الكاتب حول الانتاج الحضاري لكل دولة من الدول، أو الشرق والغرب. إذا ان..more
Elogio De La Sombra Tanizaki
Mar 30, 2016Carla rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Quanto a mim, gostaria de tentar fazer reviver, pelo menos no domínio da literatura, esse universo de sombra que estamos prestes a dissipar. Gostaria de alargar o beiral desse edifício que tem o nome de «literatura», escurecer-lhe as paredes, mergulhar na sombra o que está demasiado visível e despojar-lhe o interior de qualquer ornamento supérfluo.
Jul 20, 2017Lauringui rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Una reliquia. En este libro Tanizaki nos lleva por los caminos de las sombras. ¿Qué pasó con Japón cuando se iluminó tanto como Occidente? Un recorrido minucioso e interesante sobre la transformación de la cultura nipona a partir de la introducción (muchas veces exagerada) de la luz eléctrica y otros avances tecnológicos.
Lo que hace mágico al texto es su prosa. Poética y sencilla, parece desplegarse como si las palabras formaran parte del propio aliento del autor.
Es un libro instructivo, sobre..more
Lo que hace mágico al texto es su prosa. Poética y sencilla, parece desplegarse como si las palabras formaran parte del propio aliento del autor.
Es un libro instructivo, sobre..more
Feb 16, 2017Alexis Ayala rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Hablar de detalles nunca es sencillo. No cualquier escritor puede activar sus sentidos para con ellos escribir y atrapar a los lectores en un tema tan minucioso como la arquitectura japonesa y la piel humana.
El Elogio de las sombras comienza en la construcción de una casa según la cultura oriental y continúa describiendo todo lo que la conforma para luego hablar de los colores, alimentos, las sombras y lo hermoso que se vuelven al comprenderlas y sentirlas.
Es impactante e increíble lo sumamente..more
El Elogio de las sombras comienza en la construcción de una casa según la cultura oriental y continúa describiendo todo lo que la conforma para luego hablar de los colores, alimentos, las sombras y lo hermoso que se vuelven al comprenderlas y sentirlas.
Es impactante e increíble lo sumamente..more
Dec 21, 2017Shakiba rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
کتاب نگاهی بدیع و عمیق به سایه ها و بازیشان با نور در زیبایی شناسی ژاپنی و در کل میتوان گفت زیبایی شناسی شرقی دارد.
مقاله ی کم حجمی ست و پیشنهاد میکنم مطالعه ش کنید.
مقاله ی کم حجمی ست و پیشنهاد میکنم مطالعه ش کنید.
Mar 08, 2018Fulya İçöz rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Japon Edebiyatı'nın İngilizce çevirilerini çok beğenmesem de Vintage iki Japonca profesörüne bu kitabı çevirterek çok iyi bir karar vermiş. Açıkçası okul kütüphanesine bu kitabı istetirken aslında Japon kültürü üzerine uzun bir makale olduğunun farkında değildim. Kitap beni şaşırttı bu yüzden. Adından da anlaşılacağı üzre, kitap gölgelere ve karanlığa bir övgü adeta. Tanizaki dönemi içerisinde genişleyen batı hayranlığını eleştirmiş ve sadeliği ve gölgeleri yücelten Japon kültürünün adeta yok ol..more
Oct 06, 2012Aubrey rated it liked it Shelves: translated, japanese, person-of-everything, non-fiction, shorty-short, person-of-translated, antidote-think-twice-all, antidote-translated, 1-read-on-hand, antidote-think-twice-read
3.5/5
Indeed the thin, impalpable, faltering light, picked up as though little rivers were running through the room, collecting little pools here and there, lacquers a pattern on the surface of the night itself.Unless I'm hellbent on some epic project à la Proust or Gibbons, I rarely swing around to the same author twice in one year. Technically I started Naomi in December of 2016, but the majority of mulling it over happened firmly in '17, so the fact that I was able to bounce back so quickly..more
đôi khi tôi tự thấy thật là may mắn khi phương Tây đã đi đầu trong công nghệ. Chẳng hạn khi họ thiết kế hàng ghế economy class trên máy bay theo chuẩn người Âu 100 năm trước, người lùn châu Á chúng ta hưởng lợi biết bao nhiêu. Tôi ko dám tưởng tượng cái chỗ ngồi máy bay sẽ như thế nào nếu như người Việt thống trị kỹ nghệ hàng không.
Tự nguyện nhiệt thành như Nhật hay bị ép buộc chẳng đặng đừng như phần còn lại, Đông phương đã đi theo Tây phương. Ngoài những lợi ích hiển nhiên, chúng ta cũng mất r..more
Nov 13, 2018the gift rated it it was amazingTự nguyện nhiệt thành như Nhật hay bị ép buộc chẳng đặng đừng như phần còn lại, Đông phương đã đi theo Tây phương. Ngoài những lợi ích hiển nhiên, chúng ta cũng mất r..more
Shelves: aa-asialit, aa-japanlit, all-five-star, art-theory, art-architecture, historicity, philosophycrit, nonfiction, essays, tanizaki-junichiro
131118: view of Japanese aesthetics from 1933. yes old, yesterday’s world, from a very traditional author, this muses on an essential difference between ‘western’ and ‘oriental’ art. not as based on blood or place but environment and how this has influenced art and architecture and this is how japanese like shadows, suggestions, muted darkness, history, in everything touched by time. this is when westernization was going concern and there were many living examples of older aesthetics. i have alw..more
Mar 07, 2017Shahrzad rated it really liked it · review of another edition
ترجمه خوب و دقیق ولی بیدقتی ناشر..
دقیقا نمیدونم وظیفه ناشر چیه اگه حتا یک بار متن رو نخونه!
غلطهای املایی مکرر ..more
Dec 29, 2016Philippe rated it really liked it · review of another editionدقیقا نمیدونم وظیفه ناشر چیه اگه حتا یک بار متن رو نخونه!
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Shelves: architecture, art, design, translated, japan, poetry
A startling little book that taught me a lot about Japanese aesthetics. A real eye-opener. It's all so sensible and natural and yet it is so far removed from our Western preoccupation with clarity and light! I also enjoyed the resonances with Peter Zumthor's Atmospheres which I read on the same day. I've put it on the rereading shelf.
Dec 23, 2015أسيل rated it really liked it · review of another edition
الانسان كلما تأمل أمراً كان امتداد له ولماضيه
كلما احبه واقترب منه وانعكس جماله فيه
يتتبع اصالته وتنبع اصوله فيه
ولطالما تساءلنا عن سر انجذابنا وحنيننا للماضي
رغم ان ذاك الماضي لا يخلو من الصعاب والمشاكل
احفظ جملة احدهم يطيل التأمل والوقوف بأماكن السديم والضباب
كلما راودني هذا السؤال اذا قال
'هو الحنين ابدا لحينٍ لم نحنه و كون لم نكنه'
ذلك المتسرمد فينا سيمياء اسلاف و امتداد اخلاف .
منهم من احب الضوء وانبهر به وبالشموع والاضاءة
ومنهم من احب الظلال والظلام وانعكاسه فيه
وكل حسب ماضيه وبيئته ومجتمعه وتأملاته..more
The prolific Japanese author Junichiro Tanizaki published this extended essay on esthetics in 1933, and the issues he addresses range widely. He contrasts what he views as a Western fascination with light and clarity, newness and brightness, openness and change, with a Japanese focus on subtlety, nuance, mystery, darkness, ancientness, and stillness. Contrasting issues as different as toilet plumbing, domestic architecture, cosmetics, theater and drama, lacquer ware and gold ware, and interior i..more
Feb 03, 2018Victoria Mars rated it really liked it · review of another edition Shelves: biblioteca-santiago, desde-asia-con-des-amor, you-should-read-them
Por mucho rato no sabía si darle 4 o 5 estrellas.
Primero que todo me sorprendió. Pensé que iba a encontrar algo más docto, difícil de leer o entender. Pero ocurrió todo lo contrario. La parte de los retretes es bastante chistoso. Hasta ahí no dudaba en darle las 5 estrellas, pero llegué al final. Hay una parte que habla del color de piel, de la cual no estoy nada de acuerdo. Entiendo que eran otros tiempo y hay que entenderlo en ese contexto histórico, pero me sigue haciendo ruido.
De todas form..more
Primero que todo me sorprendió. Pensé que iba a encontrar algo más docto, difícil de leer o entender. Pero ocurrió todo lo contrario. La parte de los retretes es bastante chistoso. Hasta ahí no dudaba en darle las 5 estrellas, pero llegué al final. Hay una parte que habla del color de piel, de la cual no estoy nada de acuerdo. Entiendo que eran otros tiempo y hay que entenderlo en ese contexto histórico, pero me sigue haciendo ruido.
De todas form..more
Oct 12, 2015Xenia Germeni rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Ένα κομψοτεχνημα απαράμιλλης αξίας! Δεν είναι μονο για bookworm & booklovers ειναι για αρχιτεκτονες, μηχανικους, διακοσμητες, σχεδιαστες μοδας, σεφ, ανθοπωλες, κηπουρους, καθαριστριες, ηθοποιους, φωτογραφους, εστιατορες, ιστορικους, κοινωνικους ανθρωπολογους, μεταφραστες, εκδοτες, σκηνοθετες.ΥΓ ΨΑΞΕ ΝΑ ΤΟ ΑΠΟΚΤΗΣΕΙΣ!
Oct 25, 2015top. rated it really liked it · review of another edition
round 2
ชอบการพรรณนามาก เหนภาพทุกกระเบียด โดยเฉพาะตอนทีเอยถึงเรืองหองสุขาแบบโซเซกินิยม ตังอยูนอกตัวบาน ในหวงเวลาทีผูใชจะไดมองฟา ผอนกายสงบใจกับบรรยากาศเยนยำคำมืด แสงจันทรวับแวม เสียงนำหลนลงโคมศิลา ทางเดินมีหินปูลาด พืชพันธุเขียวชะอุมชืนขึนแทรกตามรอยรองบนพืน
ไหนจะตอนเทียบเคียงละครโนกับคาบุกิ ตอนทีเปรยวาแสงเทียนแสนเศราวูบไหว เหมือนสายธารกระหวัดลัดเลียวไปในเวิงวางของหอง กอนจะทิงตัวเปนแองนำสลดสลัวตรงนันนิด ตรงนีหนอย .. บะ! ในสวนของการใชวาทศิลปของผูแปลนัน ทังทีถูกจำกัดการใชคำทีมีความหมายอยูในวงแคบๆ แตเ..more
ชอบการพรรณนามาก เหนภาพทุกกระเบียด โดยเฉพาะตอนทีเอยถึงเรืองหองสุขาแบบโซเซกินิยม ตังอยูนอกตัวบาน ในหวงเวลาทีผูใชจะไดมองฟา ผอนกายสงบใจกับบรรยากาศเยนยำคำมืด แสงจันทรวับแวม เสียงนำหลนลงโคมศิลา ทางเดินมีหินปูลาด พืชพันธุเขียวชะอุมชืนขึนแทรกตามรอยรองบนพืน
ไหนจะตอนเทียบเคียงละครโนกับคาบุกิ ตอนทีเปรยวาแสงเทียนแสนเศราวูบไหว เหมือนสายธารกระหวัดลัดเลียวไปในเวิงวางของหอง กอนจะทิงตัวเปนแองนำสลดสลัวตรงนันนิด ตรงนีหนอย .. บะ! ในสวนของการใชวาทศิลปของผูแปลนัน ทังทีถูกจำกัดการใชคำทีมีความหมายอยูในวงแคบๆ แตเ..more
May 09, 2011Capsguy rated it really liked it
A beautiful little essay that I certainly enjoyed more than I thought I would. I tend to shy away from non-fiction works as a result of their normally dryness in nature, although I found this to be intriguing and of sufficient length that I can feel that I took something from it without having to rummage through hundreds of pages.
Pretty much Tanizaki outlays the differences in culture between the East and West on darkness, with a focus on shadows. From the designs of temples and how the architec..more
Pretty much Tanizaki outlays the differences in culture between the East and West on darkness, with a focus on shadows. From the designs of temples and how the architec..more
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Jun'ichiro Tanizaki (谷崎 潤一郎) was a Japanese author, and one of the major writers of modern Japanese literature, perhaps the most popular Japanese novelist after Natsume Sōseki.
Some of his works present a rather shocking world of sexuality and destructive erotic obsessions; others, less sensational, subtly portray the dynamics of family life in the context of the rapid changes in 20th-century Japa..more
Some of his works present a rather shocking world of sexuality and destructive erotic obsessions; others, less sensational, subtly portray the dynamics of family life in the context of the rapid changes in 20th-century Japa..more
“Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.” — 64 likes
“Whenever I see the alcove of a tastefully built Japanese room, I marvel at our comprehension of the secrets of shadows, our sensitive use of shadow and light. For the beauty of the alcove is not the work of some clever device. An empty space is marked off with plain wood and plain walls, so that the light drawn into its forms dim shadows within emptiness. There is nothing more. And yet, when we gaze into the darkness that gathers behind the crossbeam, around the flower vase, beneath the shelves, though we know perfectly well it is mere shadow, we are overcome with the feeling that in this small corner of the atmosphere there reigns complete and utter silence; that here in the darkness immutable tranquility holds sway.” — 41 likes
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