Beauty Matters : Modern Japanese Literature and the Question of Aesthetics, 1890-1930 (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University) / Yasuda, Anri

近代日本文学と美の問題1890-1930年<br>Beauty Matters : Modern Japanese Literature and the Question of Aesthetics, 1890-1930 (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)

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近代日本文学と美の問題1890-1930年
Beauty Matters : Modern Japanese Literature and the Question of Aesthetics, 1890-1930 (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)

Yasuda, Anri

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Winner, 2026 F. Hilary Conroy First Book Prize, Modern Japan History Association

The notion of beauty is inherently elusive: aesthetic judgments are at once subjective and felt to be universally valid. In Beauty Matters, Anri Yasuda demonstrates that by exploring the often conflicting yet powerful pull of aesthetic sentiments, major authors of the late Meiji (1868-1912) and Taishō (1912-1926) periods illuminated themes and perspectives that resonated broadly in modern Japanese society. This approach presents an alternative to conventional accounts in which Japanese literature before the modernist turn of the 1920s has tended to be defined by an insular focus on subjective representation and autobiographical realism.

Yasuda investigates how Natsume Sōseki, Mori Ogai, Mushanokōji Saneatsu and his peers at Shirakaba magazine, and Akutagawa Ryūnosuke sought to identify the aesthetic properties of literature through comparisons with the visual arts. They also considered the position of Japanese cultural sensibilities within the Eurocentric imperial world order. Their stories featuring painters and paintings weigh the fundamental challenge of representing anything when the conditions of knowledge are in flux, and their stories about cross-cultural encounters display both hope and ambivalence about the prospect of cosmopolitanism. Yasuda shows how thinking about beauty and art enabled these authors to surpass purely "literary" concerns. By tracing the wide-reaching significance of aesthetic affect in literary thought, Beauty Matters destabilizes received conceptions of literature's parameters and affirms literature's continued potential to intervene in cultural discourses in Japan and beyond.

Acknowledgments
A Note on Sources and Translations
1. Modern Japanese Literature and Aesthetics
2. Natsume Sōseki's Quest for "A Feeling of Beauty"
3. Mori Ogai and the "Inner Flame" of Beauty
4. Mushanokōji Saneatsu and the Early Shirakaba's Artistic Cosmopolitanism
5. Akutagawa Ryūnosuke's Literary Anxieties and the "Power to Remake"
Epilogue: Why Aesthetics?
Notes
Bibliography
Index