- TANBI SHUGI
- See AESTHETICISM.
Historical dictionary of modern Japanese literature and theater. J. Scott Miller. 2009.
TANBI SHUGI
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AESTHETICISM — Yuibi shugi or tanbi shugi (aestheticism) is a term used to describe the narrow aesthetic focus of late 19th century Western Romanticism (and later modernism) that found its way to Japan. Embodied in the phrase “art for art’s sake,”… … Japanese literature and theater
