Secrecy in Japanese Arts

副标题: "Secret Transmission" as a Mode of Knowledge

ISBN: 9781403965509

出版社: Palgrave Macmillan

出版年: 2005-5-6

页数: 208

定价: USD 100.00

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

This book explores the Japanese tradition of secret transmission of knowledge within a closed and often hereditary group. The author investigates how esoteric practices function, how people make meaning of their practices, and how this form of esotericism survived into the modern age. The first two questions are examined by using esoteric texts from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries. The last looks at theatrical treatises from the late nineteenth century on.