Published: 2023-12-20

Cultural foundations for the modification of sunlight within an architectural interior. Japanese praise of chiaroscuro based on Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s essay In’ei – raisan

Dr hab. inż. arch. Barbara Stec
Journal of Urban Ethnology
Section: Articles
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/JUE21.2023.012

Abstract

The article discusses the cultural foundations of modification of sunlight within an architectural interior on the example of the Japanese tradition as compared to the Western tradition. The analysis was based on the considerations of Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, from which the features of cultural patterns of shaping light in the aesthetics of praise of chiaroscuro were identified, consisting not only in strongly limiting light in interiors, but first of all in favoring the diffused, soft, side, but also static light, , filtered many times and strongly separated from its source. These features are discussed in the examples. Consequences of the aesthetics of praising chiaroscuro for the perception and evaluation of architecture are indicated.

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sunlight, architecture, Japanese tradition, Western tradition

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Stec, B. (2023). Cultural foundations for the modification of sunlight within an architectural interior. Japanese praise of chiaroscuro based on Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s essay In’ei – raisan. Journal of Urban Ethnology, 21, 195–215. https://doi.org/10.23858/JUE21.2023.012

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