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- catalog abstract ""The makunouchi bento, or traditional Japanese lunchbox, is a highly lacquered wooden box divided into quadrants, each of which contains different delicacies. But Kenji Ekuan shows that a much deeper reading is possible, one that sees the lunchbox as nothing less than a key to an understanding of Japanese civilization, the spirit of form, and the aesthetic ideal in which the many are reduced to one."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Makunouchi bentō no bigaku. English".
- catalog contributor b10701289.
- catalog contributor b10701290.
- catalog coverage "Japan Civilization.".
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description ""The makunouchi bento, or traditional Japanese lunchbox, is a highly lacquered wooden box divided into quadrants, each of which contains different delicacies. But Kenji Ekuan shows that a much deeper reading is possible, one that sees the lunchbox as nothing less than a key to an understanding of Japanese civilization, the spirit of form, and the aesthetic ideal in which the many are reduced to one."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Dazzling nothingness -- A pretext -- Introduction: joys of the lunchbox -- pt. 1. Hidden aspects of the lunchbox -- Japanese etiquette of the creation of forms. 1. Beauty is function. 2. Flexible functionality. 3. Equipment that draws out creativity. 4. Saving grace of the prototype. 5. Pine-bamboo-plum -- Unification in diversity. 6. All-inclusive assimilation and structuring. 7. Developmentality of the lunchbox. 8. Untrammeled adaptability -- Hypothetical culture. 9. Model for a civilization of maturity. 10. The Ultimate spirit of service -- Heart of the merchant -- pt. 2. Lunchbox-style interpretation of Japanese industry -- The Lunchbox archipelago today. 11. Technology to cope with environment: Nature and seasons of an air-conditioned culture. 12. Technology of order: The Buddhist home altar and the department store. 13. Technology for quality enhancement: Connoisseur's guide to soy sauce and the motorized Tea house.".
- catalog extent "195 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0262050552".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng jpn".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,".
- catalog spatial "Japan Civilization.".
- catalog subject "952 21".
- catalog subject "Aesthetics, Japanese.".
- catalog subject "DS821 .E49513 1998".
- catalog tableOfContents "Dazzling nothingness -- A pretext -- Introduction: joys of the lunchbox -- pt. 1. Hidden aspects of the lunchbox -- Japanese etiquette of the creation of forms. 1. Beauty is function. 2. Flexible functionality. 3. Equipment that draws out creativity. 4. Saving grace of the prototype. 5. Pine-bamboo-plum -- Unification in diversity. 6. All-inclusive assimilation and structuring. 7. Developmentality of the lunchbox. 8. Untrammeled adaptability -- Hypothetical culture. 9. Model for a civilization of maturity. 10. The Ultimate spirit of service -- Heart of the merchant -- pt. 2. Lunchbox-style interpretation of Japanese industry -- The Lunchbox archipelago today. 11. Technology to cope with environment: Nature and seasons of an air-conditioned culture. 12. Technology of order: The Buddhist home altar and the department store. 13. Technology for quality enhancement: Connoisseur's guide to soy sauce and the motorized Tea house.".
- catalog title "Makunouchi bentō no bigaku. English".
- catalog title "The aesthetics of the Japanese lunchbox / Kenji Ekuan ; edited by David B. Stewart.".
- catalog type "text".