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Preface
Introduction: Japanese Aesthetics from a Cosmopolitan Point of View, Yarran Hominh, Bard College, USA and A. Minh Nguyen, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA

Part I. Spiritual Dimensions of Japanese Aesthetics
Chapter 1. Ante-Originality and the Alternative Creativity of Japanese Pathway Arts, John C. Maraldo, University of North Florida, USA, and Mary Jo Maraldo, Independent Scholar, USA
Chapter 2. “The Secret of Music” and Unity with Nature, David E. Cooper, Durham University, UK
Chapter 3. Play in Japanese Aesthetics: Between Gravity and Lightness, Raquel Bouso, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Chapter 4. The Opening of the True Plum Blossom: Reflections on Dogen and Zen Aesthetics, Jason M. Wirth, Seattle University, USA

Part II. Moral Dimensions of Japanese Aesthetics
Chapter 5. Flourishing with Japanese Do and TEA (Transformative Expression and Appreciation), Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza, Linfield University, USA
Chapter 6. Ethically Grounded Aesthetic Sensibility in Japan: From Traditional Arts to Contemporary Design, Yuriko Saito, Rhode Island School of Design, USA
Chapter 7. Mono no aware and the Kokoro Effect in Motokiyo Zeami's No, Johnathan Flowers, California State University, Northridge, USA

Part III. Metaphysical Dimensions of Japanese Aesthetics
Chapter 8. Realism in Japanese Aesthetics: Reality as Realization in Ki-Based Art Practices, Leah Kalmanson, University of North Texas, USA
Chapter 9. Kuki Shuzo: Art and Existence as the Play of Contingency-Necessity, Mayuko Uehara, Kyoto University, Japan
Chapter 10. The Ontology and Aesthetic of Iki: An Unbearable Lightness, Carol S. Gould, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Chapter 11. A Critical Analysis of the Unconscious in D. T. Suzuki's Zen Aestheticism, Steve Odin, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA

Part IV. Japanese Artworks and Artforms: Philosophical Explorations
Chapter 12. Complexity and Japanese Aesthetics: A Close Reading of Yasujiro Ozu's The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice, Yi Chen, Independent Scholar, Canada, and Boris Steipe, University of Toronto, Canada
Chapter 13. Writing in the Sand: Patterns of Dis/Continuity between Sandscapes and Society in Japanese Cinema, Rudi Capra, University of Wuhan, China
Chapter 14. From Gardeners to Gardens: Karesansui and Cosmic Emulation, Julianne N. Chung, York University, Canada
Chapter 15. Art as the Productive Seeing of Historical Nature: Nishida and the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, Lucy Christine Schultz, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA

Part V. Intercultural Encounters and Metaphorical Concerns
Chapter 16. Excess and Restraint: Repetitive Non-Mimetic Japanese and Greek Aesthetic Rituals, Adam Loughnane, University College Cork, Ireland
Chapter 17. Scenes of Scent: Lingering Aromas in Kuki and Baudelaire, Lorenzo Marinucci, Tohoku University, Japan
Chapter 18. Beauty as Betweenness: The Classic and an Aesthetics of Participation in Watsuji, Dewey, and Gadamer, Peter L. Doebler, Dayton Art Institute, USA
Chapter 19. Early Feminist Aesthetics in Japan: Murasaki Shikibu, Sei Shonagon, and a Thousand Years of the Female Voice in Japan, Mara Miller, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA
Chapter 20. The Field of Japanese Aesthetics, Thomas P. Kasulis, Ohio State University, USA

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