Asthetic Categories (English)

Japanese: ästhetische Kategorien(英語表記)asthetischeKategorien
Asthetic Categories (English)

...Also, if we consider humans as individuals, the beauty of the human body has been the focus of art since ancient times, and the emotions generated by the relationships between individuals are the greatest opportunity for the creation of literature as the beauty of life, and humor, tragic, and humour, etc., fall into this realm. These various types of beauty that exist everywhere are called aesthetic categories, and in aesthetic category theory, beauty in the narrow sense (pure beauty) is treated as being on the same level as grace, tragic, and humor. In Japanese aesthetic category theory, we cannot forget Yoshinori Onishi (Aesthetics, vol. 2, 1959-60), who determined the position of yugen, aware, and sabi, and Shuzo Kuki (The Structure of 'iki', 1930), who elucidated the concept of iki. ...

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Japanese:

…また人間を個体としてみれば人体美は古来美術の注目を浴びてきたし,さらに個体間の諸関係の生みだす感動は人生美として文芸成立最大の機縁であり〈滑稽〉〈悲壮〉〈フモール〉などはこの領域を占める。このように遍在する各種の美の主要類型を美的範疇ästhetische Kategorienと呼ぶが,美的範疇論においては狭義の美(純粋美)も優美,悲壮,滑稽などと同列に位するものとして扱われる。なお,日本における美的範疇論では〈幽玄〉〈あはれ〉〈さび〉の位置を見定めた大西克礼(よしのり)(《美学》2巻,1959‐60),〈いき〉を解明した九鬼周造(《“いき”の構造》1930)を忘れることはできない。…

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