Michiko Yusa
Biographic Data
| ID | 486240 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michiko Yusa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michiko |
| FAMILY NAME | Yusa |
| SIGNATURE | YUSA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Washington University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art
For anyone working in aesthetics interested in understanding the richness of the Chinese aesthetic tradition this handbook is the place to start. Comprised of general introductory overviews, critical reflections and contextual analysis, it covers everything from the origins of aesthetics in China to the role of aesthetics in philosophy today. Beginning in early China (1st millennium BCE), it traces the Chinese aesthetic tradition, exploring the i…
Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Emotions in Classical Indian Philosophy
Drawing on a rich variety of Indian texts across multiple traditions, including Vedanta, Buddhist, Yoga and Jain, this collection explores how emotional experience is framed, evoked and theorized in order to offer compelling insights into human subjectivity. Rather than approaching emotion through the prism of Western theory, a team of leading Indian philosophers showcase the unique literary texture, philosophical reflections and theoretical para…
Nothingness in the Heart of Empire: The Moral and Political Philosophy of the Kyoto School in Imperial Japan by Harumi Osaki
Reviewed by: Nothingness in the Heart of Empire: The Moral and Political Philosophy of the Kyoto School in Imperial Japan by Harumi Osaki Michiko Yusa (bio) Nothingness in the Heart of Empire: The Moral and Political Philosophy of the Kyoto School in Imperial Japan. By Harumi Osaki. SUNY Press, Albany NY, 2019. xii, 292 pages. $85.00. The present book, originally written as a doctoral dissertation, is composed of two parts. Part 1 deals with the …
Dōgen and the Feminine Presence: Taking a Fresh Look into His Sermons and Other Writings
Dōgen's gender-egalitarian stance on women to attain awakening in their zazen practice is well known. At the same time, a nagging suspicion lingers on among some scholars that he grew increasingly misogynistic in his old age. In this present study, which focuses on Dōgen's sermons compiled in the Record of Eihei (Eihei kōroku), the Shōbōgenzō, and other writings related to women, we find that even after Dōgen moved to Eiheiji, his stance on women…
Zen and Philosophy: An Intellectual Biography of Nishida Kitaro
This is the definitive work on the first and greatest of Japan's twentieth-century philosophers, Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945). Interspersed throughout the narrative of Nishida's life and thought is a generous selection of the philosopher's own essays, letters, and short presentations, newly translated into English
Game of Cricket, Roses, Ninian
Where Does a Professor Fit in an American Classroom
A professor in the classroom must realize that who he or she is affects what is taught and how it is taught, because student perceptions of the professor are affected by the religious, ethnic, and national identity of the professor. On October 9, 1996, a gubernatorial debate took place in Seattle between a Republican candidate, Ellen Craswell, and a Democratic candidate, Gary Locke.1 Craswell stated that the Bible was the center of her political …
Philosophy and Inflation. Miki Kiyoshi in Weimar Germany, 1922-1924
T NHE custom of sending promising young scholars abroad to study began even before the Meiji Restoration with the opening of Japanese ports to the West. The main mission of these students was to report back home about things Western: scientific knowledge, engineering technology, jurisprudence, or learning in the humanities. In the twentieth century the government sent higher school teachers, university lecturers, and assistant professors abroad f…
L'lo e ll Tu
Nishida and Hearn
O_XW N Saturday afternoon, 19 March 1910, three friends, Nishida Kitaro A [B+RI, Suzuki Daisetsu Xtkt1I, and Yamamoto Ryokichi LUtR+, appeared at the house in Nishi-Okubo, Tokyo, where Lafcadio Hearn (also known as Koizumi Yakumo 'j,7%J-), 1850-1904, used to live. The three men were guided by Tanabe Ryuji 1 a former student of Hearn's at the Imperial University of Tokyo from 1896 to 1899. Mrs Hearn, or Koizumi Setsu 'E]'7%, cordially greeted her …
Emerging from Meditation
The Complete Guide to Everyday Kanji: A Systematic Approach to Mastering of 1,945 Joyo Kanji as Well as 1,257 Common Compounds
These books, both assisted by grants from the Japan Foundation, are welcome additions to the library of fast-growing Japanese language materials. Both volumes show the enormous time and effort that the authors put into them. The Complete Guide to Everyday Kanji, a carefully arranged reference to the 1,945 joyo- kanji, presents every kanji with on- and kun-reading(s) as applicable, a concise etymology and English meaning(s), and one or two words, …
An Inquiry into the Good
Nishida Kitaro
Nishida and the Question of Nationalism
The Artistry of Aeschylus and Zeami: A Comparative Study of Greek Tragedy and No
By means of a cross-cultural analysis of selected examples of early Japanese and early Greek drama, Mae Smethurst enhances our appreciation of each form. While using the methods of a classicist to increase our understanding of no as literary texts, she also demonstrates that the fifteenth-century treatises of Zeami--an important playwright, actor, critic, and teacher of no--offer fresh insight into Aeschylus' use of actors, language, and various …
The Logic of Unity: The Discovery of Zero and Emptiness in Prajnaparamita Thought
Riken no Ken. Zeami's Theory of Acting and Theatrical Appreciation
T nHE concept of riken no ken *io9i, literally, 'the seeing of detached perception',2 is considered by noh specialists to be one of the most important contributions of Zeami Motokiyo i 1363-1443, to theater art. In his commentary, Nose Asaji confesses, 'I am irresistibly drawn to this phrase riken no ken. Zeami was one of those people who boldly create new terms. Creation of new terms implies the birth of new ideas, ideas previously unknown and u…
Zen and Western Thought
Zen Action, Zen Person
Philosophy and Inflation. Miki Kiyoshi in Weimar Germany, 1922-1924
T NHE custom of sending promising young scholars abroad to study began even before the Meiji Restoration with the opening of Japanese ports to the West. The main mission of these students was to report back home about things Western: scientific knowledge, engineering technology, jurisprudence, or learning in the humanities. In the twentieth century the government sent higher school teachers, university lecturers, and assistant professors abroad f…
Nishida and Hearn
O_XW N Saturday afternoon, 19 March 1910, three friends, Nishida Kitaro A [B+RI, Suzuki Daisetsu Xtkt1I, and Yamamoto Ryokichi LUtR+, appeared at the house in Nishi-Okubo, Tokyo, where Lafcadio Hearn (also known as Koizumi Yakumo 'j,7%J-), 1850-1904, used to live. The three men were guided by Tanabe Ryuji 1 a former student of Hearn's at the Imperial University of Tokyo from 1896 to 1899. Mrs Hearn, or Koizumi Setsu 'E]'7%, cordially greeted her …
Nishida and the Question of Nationalism
Riken no Ken. Zeami's Theory of Acting and Theatrical Appreciation
T nHE concept of riken no ken *io9i, literally, 'the seeing of detached perception',2 is considered by noh specialists to be one of the most important contributions of Zeami Motokiyo i 1363-1443, to theater art. In his commentary, Nose Asaji confesses, 'I am irresistibly drawn to this phrase riken no ken. Zeami was one of those people who boldly create new terms. Creation of new terms implies the birth of new ideas, ideas previously unknown and u…
Zen and Western Thought
Zen Action, Zen Person
Zen and Western Thought
The Logic of Unity: The Discovery of Zero and Emptiness in Prajnaparamita Thought
Riken no Ken. Zeami's Theory of Acting and Theatrical Appreciation
T nHE concept of riken no ken *io9i, literally, 'the seeing of detached perception',2 is considered by noh specialists to be one of the most important contributions of Zeami Motokiyo i 1363-1443, to theater art. In his commentary, Nose Asaji confesses, 'I am irresistibly drawn to this phrase riken no ken. Zeami was one of those people who boldly create new terms. Creation of new terms implies the birth of new ideas, ideas previously unknown and u…
The Artistry of Aeschylus and Zeami: A Comparative Study of Greek Tragedy and No
By means of a cross-cultural analysis of selected examples of early Japanese and early Greek drama, Mae Smethurst enhances our appreciation of each form. While using the methods of a classicist to increase our understanding of no as literary texts, she also demonstrates that the fifteenth-century treatises of Zeami--an important playwright, actor, critic, and teacher of no--offer fresh insight into Aeschylus' use of actors, language, and various …
An Inquiry into the Good
Nishida Kitaro
Nishida and the Question of Nationalism
Emerging from Meditation
The Complete Guide to Everyday Kanji: A Systematic Approach to Mastering of 1,945 Joyo Kanji as Well as 1,257 Common Compounds
These books, both assisted by grants from the Japan Foundation, are welcome additions to the library of fast-growing Japanese language materials. Both volumes show the enormous time and effort that the authors put into them. The Complete Guide to Everyday Kanji, a carefully arranged reference to the 1,945 joyo- kanji, presents every kanji with on- and kun-reading(s) as applicable, a concise etymology and English meaning(s), and one or two words, …
Nishida and Hearn
O_XW N Saturday afternoon, 19 March 1910, three friends, Nishida Kitaro A [B+RI, Suzuki Daisetsu Xtkt1I, and Yamamoto Ryokichi LUtR+, appeared at the house in Nishi-Okubo, Tokyo, where Lafcadio Hearn (also known as Koizumi Yakumo 'j,7%J-), 1850-1904, used to live. The three men were guided by Tanabe Ryuji 1 a former student of Hearn's at the Imperial University of Tokyo from 1896 to 1899. Mrs Hearn, or Koizumi Setsu 'E]'7%, cordially greeted her …
Where Does a Professor Fit in an American Classroom
A professor in the classroom must realize that who he or she is affects what is taught and how it is taught, because student perceptions of the professor are affected by the religious, ethnic, and national identity of the professor. On October 9, 1996, a gubernatorial debate took place in Seattle between a Republican candidate, Ellen Craswell, and a Democratic candidate, Gary Locke.1 Craswell stated that the Bible was the center of her political …
Philosophy and Inflation. Miki Kiyoshi in Weimar Germany, 1922-1924
T NHE custom of sending promising young scholars abroad to study began even before the Meiji Restoration with the opening of Japanese ports to the West. The main mission of these students was to report back home about things Western: scientific knowledge, engineering technology, jurisprudence, or learning in the humanities. In the twentieth century the government sent higher school teachers, university lecturers, and assistant professors abroad f…
L'lo e ll Tu
Game of Cricket, Roses, Ninian
Zen and Philosophy: An Intellectual Biography of Nishida Kitaro
This is the definitive work on the first and greatest of Japan's twentieth-century philosophers, Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945). Interspersed throughout the narrative of Nishida's life and thought is a generous selection of the philosopher's own essays, letters, and short presentations, newly translated into English
Dōgen and the Feminine Presence: Taking a Fresh Look into His Sermons and Other Writings
Dōgen's gender-egalitarian stance on women to attain awakening in their zazen practice is well known. At the same time, a nagging suspicion lingers on among some scholars that he grew increasingly misogynistic in his old age. In this present study, which focuses on Dōgen's sermons compiled in the Record of Eihei (Eihei kōroku), the Shōbōgenzō, and other writings related to women, we find that even after Dōgen moved to Eiheiji, his stance on women…
The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art
For anyone working in aesthetics interested in understanding the richness of the Chinese aesthetic tradition this handbook is the place to start. Comprised of general introductory overviews, critical reflections and contextual analysis, it covers everything from the origins of aesthetics in China to the role of aesthetics in philosophy today. Beginning in early China (1st millennium BCE), it traces the Chinese aesthetic tradition, exploring the i…
Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Emotions in Classical Indian Philosophy
Drawing on a rich variety of Indian texts across multiple traditions, including Vedanta, Buddhist, Yoga and Jain, this collection explores how emotional experience is framed, evoked and theorized in order to offer compelling insights into human subjectivity. Rather than approaching emotion through the prism of Western theory, a team of leading Indian philosophers showcase the unique literary texture, philosophical reflections and theoretical para…
Nothingness in the Heart of Empire: The Moral and Political Philosophy of the Kyoto School in Imperial Japan by Harumi Osaki
Reviewed by: Nothingness in the Heart of Empire: The Moral and Political Philosophy of the Kyoto School in Imperial Japan by Harumi Osaki Michiko Yusa (bio) Nothingness in the Heart of Empire: The Moral and Political Philosophy of the Kyoto School in Imperial Japan. By Harumi Osaki. SUNY Press, Albany NY, 2019. xii, 292 pages. $85.00. The present book, originally written as a doctoral dissertation, is composed of two parts. Part 1 deals with the …
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