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Japanese Art in Perspective : East-West Encounters Sophie Benge The complex moral ambiguities ofHow do Japanese and Western aesthetics differ? In this comparative cultural study, Takashina Shji, a leading scholar of Western art history and insightful commentator on Japanese art, compares the two artistic traditions to reveal the distinctive characteristics of the Japanese sense of beauty. The first section, Methods of Japanese Art, uses examples and cross cultural comparisons to elucidate the techniques by which Japanese artists cultivated their