《Praise of Shadows》 - Inspector

Japanese: 《陰翳礼讃》 - いんえいらいさん
《Praise of Shadows》 - Inspector

...As we went from ancient times to the Middle Ages to the early modern period, the Japanese changed to a more rational understanding of shadow. Finally, we should not forget Junichiro Tanizaki's long essay In Praise of Shadows (1933), in which he reinterpreted shadow as shading, cloudiness, and darkness, and tried to confirm that it was there that traditional Japanese beauty resides. Tanizaki, who saw Japanese houses (especially toilets), lacquerware, food, and so on, as always being based on shadow and inextricably linked to darkness, wrote, "Beauty always develops from the reality of life, and our ancestors, who were forced to live in dark rooms, eventually discovered beauty in shadow and eventually came to use shadow to serve the purpose of beauty. ...

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "In Praise of Shadows" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…古代・中世・近世へと時代を追うにしたがい,日本人は〈かげ〉を合理的に受け取るように変化していった。 最後に,〈かげ〉を,かげり,くもり,くらがりとしてとらえ直し,そこにこそ日本伝統美が存在することを確かめようとした谷崎潤一郎の長編随筆《陰翳礼讃》(1933)のあることを忘れてはならないであろう。日本家屋(とくに厠),漆器,食物などが〈常に陰翳を基調とし,闇と云ふものと切れない関係にある〉と見る谷崎は,〈美と云ふものは常に生活の実際から発達するもので,暗い部屋に住むことを余儀なくされたわれわれの先祖は,いつしか陰翳のうちに美を発見し,やがては美の目的に添ふやうに陰翳を利用するに至った。…

※「《陰翳礼讃》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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