CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction -- HERMENEUTICS AND JAPAN -- 1 Method, Hermeneutics, Truth -- 2 Poetics of Intransitivity -- 3 The Hermeneutic Approach to Japanese Modernity "Art- Way," "Iki," and "Cut- Continuance" -- 4 Frame and Link A Philosophy of Japanese Composition -- 5 The Eloquent Stillness of Stone Rock in the Dry Landscape Garden -- 6 Motoori Norinaga's Hermeneutic of Mono no Aware The Link between Ideal and Tradition -- 7 Between Individual and Communal, Subject and Object, Self and Other Mediating Watsuji Tetsuro's Hermeneutics -- JAPAN'S AESTHETIC HERMENEUTICS -- 8 Nishi Amane on Aesthetics A Japanese Version of Utilitarian Aesthetics -- 9 Hegel in Tokyo Ernest Fenollosa and His 1882 Lecture on the Truth of Art -- 10 Ogai, Schelling, and Aesthetics -- 11 Cognitive Gaps in the Recognition of Masters and Masterpieces in the Formative Years of Japanese Art History, 1880-1900 -- 12 Nature-the Naturalization of Experience as National -- 13 Coincidentia Oppositorum Onishi Yoshinori's Greek Genealogies of Japan -- 14 Representations of "Japaneseness" in Modern Japanese Aesthetics An Introduction to the Critique of Comparative Reason -- JAPAN'S LITERARY HERMENEUTICS -- 15 Constructing "Japanese Literature" Global and Ethnic Nationalism -- 16 What Is Bungaku? The Reformulation of the Concept of "Literature" in Early Twentieth- Century Japan -- 17 Primitive Vision Heidegger's Hermeneutics and Man'yoshu -- 18 Saito Mokichi's Poetics of Shasei -- NOTES -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.