Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-367) and index
Japanese literature : four polarities / J. Thomas Rimer -- Japanese aesthetics / Donald Keene -- The vocabulary of Japanese aesthetics, I, II, III / Wm. Theodore De Bary -- Ways of Japanese thinking / Graham Parkes -- Feminine sensibility in the Heian era / Donald Keene -- "Approach to Haiku" and "Basic principles" / Kenneth Yasuda -- Bashō on the art of the Haiku : impersonality in poetry / Makoto Ueda -- Zeami and the art of the nō drama : imitation, yūgen, and sublimity / Makoto Ueda -- The social environment of Tokugawa Kabuki / Donald H. Shively -- The wabi aesthetic through the ages / Haga Kōshirō -- Bushidō : mode or ethic? / Roger T. Ames -- Culture in the present age / H. Paul Varley