Paula Arai
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824835354
- eISBN:
- 9780824870362
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824835354.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
This chapter discusses the role of beauty in the Japanese Buddhist women’s healing activities. Beauty is the center of the Japanese women’s practices and locus of their healing. Indeed, the highly ...
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This chapter discusses the role of beauty in the Japanese Buddhist women’s healing activities. Beauty is the center of the Japanese women’s practices and locus of their healing. Indeed, the highly ritualized and aestheticized dimensions of Japanese culture are brought together in their way of healing. All ritualized activities the women engage in as part of their healing have an aesthetic dimension. Whether they are composing a poem or arranging flowers, or just enjoying a walk to see the plum blossoms in late winter, the power of beauty to help heal was emphasized by all the women. This chapter examines the women’s ritualized activities that focus on the explicit creation and appreciation of beauty. It considers the types of aesthetic practices that the women cultivate based on the Way of healing paradigm, such as calligraphy, painting and drawing, poetry reading and writing, music and particularly go-eika hymnody, flower arranging and viewing nature, and tea ceremony.Less
This chapter discusses the role of beauty in the Japanese Buddhist women’s healing activities. Beauty is the center of the Japanese women’s practices and locus of their healing. Indeed, the highly ritualized and aestheticized dimensions of Japanese culture are brought together in their way of healing. All ritualized activities the women engage in as part of their healing have an aesthetic dimension. Whether they are composing a poem or arranging flowers, or just enjoying a walk to see the plum blossoms in late winter, the power of beauty to help heal was emphasized by all the women. This chapter examines the women’s ritualized activities that focus on the explicit creation and appreciation of beauty. It considers the types of aesthetic practices that the women cultivate based on the Way of healing paradigm, such as calligraphy, painting and drawing, poetry reading and writing, music and particularly go-eika hymnody, flower arranging and viewing nature, and tea ceremony.
Jane Stevenson
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780198808770
- eISBN:
- 9780191846472
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198808770.003.0016
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
Flowers may be baroque by virtue of being excessive or surprising. They are an important aspect of interwar elegance and conspicuous consumption. Flowers were used as a statement of wealth and ...
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Flowers may be baroque by virtue of being excessive or surprising. They are an important aspect of interwar elegance and conspicuous consumption. Flowers were used as a statement of wealth and luxury. They were also used for the creation of startling yet temporary effects. The key figure in this development is Constance Spry.Less
Flowers may be baroque by virtue of being excessive or surprising. They are an important aspect of interwar elegance and conspicuous consumption. Flowers were used as a statement of wealth and luxury. They were also used for the creation of startling yet temporary effects. The key figure in this development is Constance Spry.
