Shüzô Kuki e sua obra estrutura do Iki (Ikí no Kôzô)

Abstract

Presentation of Iki no Kôzo {Structure of Iki), written by Japanese philosopher Shüzô Kuki in 1930, where he points out one of the aspects of Japanese ethic-aesthetic behaviors that emerge and stablish itself in the course of the 18th century and first half of the 19th, in Edo (present Tokyo), mainly among merchants, as a counterpart to the rigid norms followed by the samurai.