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Meščerjakov Aleksandar: Knjiga japanskih simbola

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Knjiga japanskih simbola

Meščerjakov Aleksandar

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Aleksandar Meshcheryakov: The Book of Japanese Symbols

A sort of encyclopedia of Japanese culture and a lavish example of Russian popular science literature. With a simple sentence and direct way of telling, and essentially effective and witty, a sea of ​​expertly selected data is given that illuminates Japanese culture in its historical duration. The author presented the Japanese view of the world with a selection of representative Japanese civilization concepts, conveyed their origin and place in contemporary Japanese society. Within the framework of one cover, two books are practically combined here. 

The first of them - the Book of Japanese Symbols, gradually introduces the reader to the most important Japanese symbols starting from the well-known state symbols, through symbols from the plant and animal world and ending with symbols from the material world such as a mirror, umbrella, paper and fan or those related to rest and relaxation such as tea and tobacco. The last chapter of this book presents short cultural reviews of the remaining Japanese topics, which the author has not classified anywhere and in which, in his own words, he tried to find some new approaches to Japanese culture. 

The second book - The Book of Japanese Customs - aims to bring readers closer to Japan from an angle that is not usually discussed in books of this type. It is about the so-called «cultural physiology», about how the Japanese look and see the surrounding world (why, for example, Japanese artists pay more attention to branches and leaves instead of forests or trees), how they measure time, how they eat and drink and satisfy various physiological needs. In other words, it includes all those life actions and understandings about the functioning of the body, which are bypassed by the Christian-educated European Japanese studies (with its customary division into clean - spiritual and dirty - physical), but which essentially rests on the entire Japanese spiritual superstructure.   

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