Viewed Sideways

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Donald Richie. Viewed Sideways

Intimacy and Distance: On Being a Foreigner in Japan

Japan: A Description

Japanese Shapes

Japanese Rhythms

Japan: Half a Century of Change

The Nourishing Void

The Coming Collapse of Cultural Internationalization

Interpretations of Japan

Crossing the Border: The Japanese Example

The Japanese Way of Seeing

Japan and the Image Industry

Traditional Japanese Design

Signs and Symbols

The Tongue of Fashion

Japan the Incongruous

Pink Box: Inside Japanese Sex Clubs

The Presentational Urge as Theater

Some Loose Pages on Japanese Narration

Notes on the Noh

The Kyogen

TV: The Presentational Image

Outcast Samurai Dancer

Retro Dancing

A Definition of the Japanese Film

Some Notes on Life and Death in the Japanese Film

Buddhism and the Film

Japanese Women in Society and in Film

The Japanese Eroduction

Trains in Japanese Film

Subtitling Japanese Films

Wasei Eigo: A Beginner’s Guide

Mizushobai: The Art of Pleasing

Some Thoughts on Car Culture in Japan

The Window and the Mirror: Some Thoughts on International Culture

An Alternative Way of Thought

Foreign Thoughts on Watching the Passing of a Matsuri Procession

My View

Acknowledgments

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Viewed Sideways

WRITINGS ON CULTURE AND STYLE

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The garden stops at a hedge. Beyond that hedge, space. Then, in the distance, the mountain, Mount Hiei. It does not belong to the temple, but it is a part of the garden. The hand of the Japanese reaches out and offers (appropriates) that which is most distant. Anything out there can become nature. The world is one, a seamless whole, for those who can see it, for those who can learn to observe, to regard, to understand.

I, who sort of believed in ancestor worship, even if the Japanese did not, was thus surprised when I saw the Shiba Tokugawa tombs razed to make way for the Prince Hotel. And I, who thought that a cozy symbiotic relationship existed between Japan and nature, reacted with alarm when I saw the coastline being concreted over, forests cut down to accommodate golf courses, and national park land given over to developers.

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