East and the Sun. The Grace of Japanese Land in Cultural-Geographical Discourse

Authors

  • A.N. Mescheryakov

Keywords:

Japan, sun, light, East, Confusianism, Shinto, Buddhism, country of gods

Abstract

The article deals with the self-description discourse of Japan as a “Sun Land”, one of the basic features of Japanese culture from ancient times to modernity. Shinto priests, Buddhist monks, and Confucian thinkers contribute to the “Sunny Japan” image, and, by all philosophical differences, they justifi ed a sun-nature of Japanese country.

Author Biography

  • A.N. Mescheryakov

    доктор филологических наук, профессор Российского государственного гуманитарного университета

Published

2013-08-28

Issue

No. 7 (2013)

Section

Philosophy and Society

How to Cite

[1]
2013. East and the Sun. The Grace of Japanese Land in Cultural-Geographical Discourse. Voprosy Filosofii. 7 (Aug. 2013), 37–45.