In Praise of Shadows

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    Jun'ichirō Tanizaki’s In “Praise of Shadows”, he expresses his firm belief that simplicity and contrast - common Japanese values - have immense beauty, even as these elements become less common in a changing society. As the world around him shifts away from these values, and more towards values of innovation and uniformity, he feels Japanese traditions deserve to remain appreciated and understood. As a result, Tanizaki utilizes “shadows” to represent not only literal shadows but also the various traditions

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    Tanizaki’s “In Praise of Shadows” is a short retreat describing about the cross-cultural conflict which occurred as a result of Western design. The learned novelist evaluates and compares every aspect in the design of Japanese architecture. The author interprets that ancient style is well woven with the surroundings and lifestyle and more rational with traditions. Author is very well aware that one cannot turn his back from the scientific bliss but feels that it could have been much better, if the

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    In Praise of Shadows relating to Kitchen Both Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto and In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki are works of Japanese literature, but they also have many other similarities within them. Even though the books are very different types of writing; Kitchen being a fictional story, and, In Praise of Shadows being an essay, throughout both pieces Yoshimoto and Tanizaki utilize imagery in order to connect with the audience on a deeper level, they also use this to convey the importance

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    “In Praise of Shadows” is an essay over aesthetics that derives from the deep, almost scholarly interest in the traditional culture of Japan. It is also full of passages worth to be called poetic narrative. Tanizaki wanders from architecture to toilets to no theatre to women to food to the color of skin. He seeks and finds and praises shadows everywhere. Tanizaki describes the toilet as a spiritual repose and a temple. “Anyone with a taste for traditional architecture must agree that the Japanese

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    The essay In Praise of Shadows, written by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki explores Japanese cultural values and aesthetics. The main goal Tanizaki had while writing In Praise of Shadows was to inform the reader about the importance of having traditional values in Japanese culture. In his essay, Tanizaki uses shadows to symbolize traditional values, as he believes people are not seeing the importance of traditional values, just as they are not seeing the importance of shadows. Tanizaki believes that as time

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    Chapter 7 “The Tabernacle of the Old Testament” The words tabernacle and temple can be confusing; let me in a simple way explain the difference. Firstly the tabernacle is the English translation of the Hebrew word מִשְׁכָּן “mishkan”, which simply means residence or dwelling place. According to the Hebrew Bible this was a portable dwelling place for the presence of God, from the time of the Exodus to the conquering of the Promise Land (Canaan). In contrast the temple is the English translation

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    education just as much as we do in the modern century. The prisoners praise one another if they guess the right shadow that is going to be displayed. If they guess the wrong shadow then they make fun of one another. As they sit there in the little cave for most of their life they do not really understand or know what education is but they do think the shadow game makes them smarter than the other prisoners. The prisoners think the shadows are real so they feel smart when they guess right as to what they

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    St. Paul speaks about things on earth being shadows of the

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    The Allegory of the Cave To what extent can education develop or change the mindset of people regarding the world? Prisoners cannot escape inevitable self-delusion; plato implies that prison is where a person cannot learn basic truths or perform actions according to reality (instead, false ideas/incomplete info) Situation in document mirrors media today Plato writes about a conversation his mentor, Socrates, had. Socrates is found speaking with Glaucon, discussing to what extent we as humans

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    chained facing a wall and could only see shadows cast on the cave’s wall by a fire that burned, out of sight, behind them. Already from Plato’s description the reader can derive that the prisoners have very limited knowledge, having lived in these surroundings they are ignorant to anything else. The allegory then continues with a description of a walkway on which models and shares of objects are displayed across. The shadows of these objects are what create the shadows on the cave walls. There are also

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