Inexorable Modernity Japan's Grappling With Modernity in the Arts

The book represents a compilation of case studies about Japanese intellectuals' relationships to modernity in three majors arenas of art (art and aesthetics, theater, and literature) beginning in the 1850s to the 1970s. It discusses how inevitable wave of modernity was responded to, discussed, assimilated, changed by some of the most notable practitioners of art and intellectuals in Japan during this period.Nara, Hiroshi is the author of 'Inexorable Modernity Japan's Grappling With Modernity in the Arts', published 2007 under ISBN 9780739118429 and ISBN 0739118420.