Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-252) and index.
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In spring the cherry blossoms -- Change and nature -- Japanese poetics and a first consideration of animism -- Utsusemi, the Cicada's shell -- Hakanasa and mujō -- Anitya in a world of spontaneity -- Life as it seems, Nagarjuna's emptiness -- Shukke: leaving the world -- Success and failure -- The transcendental order/the order of here-and-now -- Zen, kata, and the noh theater -- Hedonism -- Matsuo Bashō, permanence and change -- Mono no aware, the sadness of things -- Protocol and loyal retainers -- Inner and outer: the expanding context of modernity -- Monstrosity -- Change under the transcendental order : late-modern Japan (1868-1970) -- The colonial context: adapt or die -- Explaining Japan : linking here-and-now with the new world order -- Japan as bushidō -- Japan as tea-ism -- Japan as erotic style -- In the margins of empire-the rape of Nanking -- Other horrors of life on the margins -- Kamikaze -- The a-bomb, and a new kind of nothing -- Occupation: radical change as salvation -- Decadence, moving away from form -- To live! -- Nihil versus nothingness -- Higashiyama Kaii: embracing passivity -- Return to evanescence -- Contemporary Japan (1970 to the present) -- Fashion and the joy of evanescence -- Postmodernism and a cherry blossom refrain -- The end of the world -- Nausicaa and the cicada-shell world -- Seeking but never finding -- Anima, anime, and animism.