The Empire of signs : semiotic essays on Japanese culture / edited by Yoshihiko Ikegami.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : semiotics and culture / Yoshihiko Ikegami -- The notion of the sign in Japanese tradition / Tomonori Toyama -- Creative interpretation of the text and the Japanese mentality / Michiko Arima -- Characters that represent, reflect, and translate culture : in the context of the revolution in modern art / Shutaro Mukai -- The images of Japanese landscapes : a typological approach / Tadahiko Higuchi -- Semiosis in architecture : a systemic analysis of the traditional towntextures in Japan / Teruyuki Monnai -- Intertextuality in Japanese traditional music / Yoshihiko Tokumaru -- The "forbidden chamber" motif in a Japanese fairy tale / Hayao Kawai -- Aspects of Japanese nonverbal behavior in relation to traditional culture / Yasuko Tohyama -- Cosmological dimension of the Japanese theater / Masao Yamaguchi -- Literary semiotics of suburban houses / Toshihiko Kawasaki.

The ghost trio : Beckett, Yeats, and Noh / Yasunari Takahashi -- A semiotic approach to the role of Paritta in the Buddhist ritual / Tamotsu Aoki -- 'Do-language' and 'become-language' : two contrasting types of linguistic representation / Yoshihiko Ikegami.

Like Roland Barthes' well-known book, L'Empire des signes, from which the title of the present collection is taken, this volume contains essays dealing with certain aspects of Japanese culture.

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