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vii Acknowledgments I wrote this book as a 1994–1995 Fulbright scholar at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. I would especially like to thank Professor Tanaka Hideyoshi from the Aesthetics Department as well as Professors Noe Keiichi, Ano Fumio, and Numata Hiroyuki at Tohoku University for their encouragement. Many ideas in this volume have been developed over fifteen years of teaching courses on Japanese and comparative aesthetics at the University of Hawai‘i. Among my colleagues in the UH Department of Philosophy , I would especially like to thank Professor Arindam Chakrabharti, who has been a great source of information for this work. Among graduate students in our Philosophy Department, I would like to thank Brad Parks for his careful reading of my manuscript. Other colleagues at the University of Hawai‘i have been profoundly instrumental in the development of this project, especially Takie Sugiyama Lebra and Valdo H. Viglielmo. Indeed, Professor Viglielmo’s dual expertise in modern Japanese philosophy and modern Japanese literature has guided the direction of this work. I would like to express my indebtedness to Professor Steven Heine, as well, for his valuable comments on this manuscript. Finally, Robert C. Neville, my philosophy adviser at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, has made an important contribution to the present work and his insights are cited in the following pages. ...

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