Japan Unveiled: Understanding Japanese Body Culture

by Dominique Buisson

According to Shinto belief, the human body in Japan is part of nature and must be in harmony with the wider world. This is cultural history of the human body in Japan, from the Samurai to Issy Miyake. Explained here are the social codes and aesthetics of behaviour in Japan; the sacred body of religion; the body of the dead; the theatrical body of the Kabuki actor; the Warrior's body and man more...

216 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 2003