BIGAKU（The Japanese Journal of Aesthetics in Western Language）

ISSN 2436-7656

About BIGAKU（The Japanese Journal of Aesthetics in Western Language）

BIGAKU（The Japanese Journal of Aesthetics in Western Language）is the annual online journal edited and released by the Japanese Society for Aesthetics (JSA). This journal mainly aims to introduce the articles published in BIGAKU (The Japanese Journal of Aesthetics in Japanese) to the world.

The hardcopy of the western language version was published from 1983 (No. 1) to 2006 (No. 12), and an electronic version of the journal from 2009 (No. 13) to 2021 (No.25) under the title Aesthetics.

Contribution to this journal is limited to the members of the Japanese Society for Aesthetics until notified as otherwise.

Current Issue: No. 28 (March 2024)

Articles

La notion de Vivência et la vie quotidienne chez Lygia Clark

IINUMA Yoko

1-14

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From an Analytic Pragmatist: Rethinking Analytic Aesthetics

KATO Takafumi

15-27

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What Max Neuhaus Called “Music”

KODERA Michiru

28-38

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Conceptual Development and Interaction among Related Disciplines in Hugo Riemann’s Musik-Lexikon: Focused on Theory of Harmony

NISHIDA Hiroko

39-53

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Lawrence Weiner’s “Statement of Intent”: Comparing Sol LeWitt and Joseph Kosuth

OSAWA Yoshihisa

54-65

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A Study on Rai Sanyo’s Painting Theory: Through the Reinterpretation of “Raikai (磊磈)”

SHIMAMURA Yukitada

66-75

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The Application of Confucianism and Taoism in Zong Baihua’s Chinese Art Theory

YI Ding

76-90

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Editorial Board

Editors

AKIBA Fuminori (Nagoya University, Nagoya)
GOTO Fumiko (Keio University, Tokyo)
ITO Asa (Tokyo Institute of Technology University, Tokyo)
KOGAWA Masahiro (Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya)

Editorial Secretary

KIMURA Haruka (Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya)

Contact

bigakuaesthetics@gmail.com

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国際版『美学Aesthetics』は、第26号より雑誌の名称を、欧文版『BIGAKU』と変更しておりました。にもかかわらず、第26号から28号掲載各論文のヘッダー部分に、Aestheticsの名称が残ったままになっておりました。たいへん申し訳ございませんでした。著者のみなさま、また関係のみなさまには多大なご迷惑をおかけいたしました。深くお詫び申し上げます。第29号以降、このような誤りのないよう、気持ちを引き締めて取り組んでまいります。このたびはたいへん申し訳ございませんでした。

2024年10月
欧文版『BIGAKU』編集委員会委員一同
委員長　秋庭史典

Previous Issues

Links to each issue are below. Click on the issue to find its table of contents and links to individual articles (pdf).