Can Martial Arts Master Be an Artist?: Reflections on Takashi Koizumi’s “Ame Agaru”
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This article is an attempt to tell about how the terms artist and art are conceived of in the East. Pierzchała stresses that Japan’s art is first of all effort, craft dexterity – only practice makes perfect, e.g. it takes calligraphy master many years to practise line, it takes Japan’s famous families years to practise noh or kabuki theatre techniques. Painters and poets act in a similar way. So do martial arts masters. The tradition of exercises is strongly linked with religion. It is tied with Zen of which muga (no ego) is one of the basic categories. Muga denotes ecstasy deprived of the feeling that I am doing something, the absence of division into subject and object.
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Takashi Koizumi, noh, kabukiReferences
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Aneta Pierzchałakwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences Poland
Doktorantka w Instytucie Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk. Redaktorka „Kwartalnika Filmowego”.
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