BIGAKU（The Japanese Journal of Aesthetics in Western Languages）

ISSN 2436-7656

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

BIGAKU（The Japanese Journal of Aesthetics in Western Languages）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 Japaneses) 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. 30 (March 27th, 2026)

Articles

Clement Greenberg and the Politics of the Avant-Garde in His Early Writings:
Recontextualizing “Avant-Garde and Kitsch” within Partisan Review’s Critique of the Popular Front

SAKAI Takahiro

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Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s Philosophy of Time Revisited:
At the Intersection of Philosophical, Literary, and Musical Spectrum

CHO, You-Kyung

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From the Aesthetics of Sencha to a Way of Life:
A Study of Sei (清) and Kyōtō (狂蕩) in Ueda Akinari

SHIMAMURA Yukitada

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Editorial Board

Editors

GOTO Fumiko (Keio University, Tokyo)
ITO Asa (Institute of Science Tokyo, Tokyo)
KOGAWA Masahiro (Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya)
TAKENAKA Yumi (Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto)

Editorial Secretary

SASA Futa (Institute of Science Tokyo, Tokyo)

Contact

bigakuaesthetics@gmail.com

Previous Issues

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