The Culture of Japan: Pushing the Limits of Duality

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10.2991/icassee-17.2018.95How to use a DOI?

Keywords

architecture of Japan; the categories of space; "interspace"; "emptiness"; the "shadow" in architecture

Abstract

The article expresses the hypothesis that the dual scheme is not applicable for describing a particular area of Japanese culture. The author proposes to introduce a third (central) link to the structure of dual representation. The resulting triad describes the specificities of the Japanese worldview more accurately, as the central link performs the role of the intermediate zone, which demarcates but at the same time absorbs, the polar categories. In the view of Japanese, this is not merely important, but fundamental for understanding any phenomenon. To justify the existence of a central link and its dominant role in the culture of Japan, examples are given from the fields of art culture, architecture, and, of course, the Japanese worldview.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Nina Konovalova
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TI  - The Culture of Japan: Pushing the Limits of Duality
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Art Studies: Science, Experience, Education (ICASSEE 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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