@Book{1067383298,
author="Mizuta Lippit, Miya Elise",
title="Aesthetic life: beauty and art in modern Japan",
series="Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University",
year="2019",
publisher="Harvard University Asia Center",
address="Cambridge, Massachusetts",
keywords="Feminine beauty (Aesthetics); Japan; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in art; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in literature; Arts, Japanese; Aesthetics, Japanese",
abstract="``Examines how the ''beautiful woman`` (bijin) emerged as a symbol of Japanese culture during the Meiji period and the contributions of writers, artists, scholars, critics, journalists, and politicians to the discussion of the bijin and to the production of a national discourse on standards of Japanese beauty and art''--",
note="Miya Elise Mizuta Lippit",
note="Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Yale University, 2001) issued under the title: Figures of beauty : aesthetics and the beautiful woman in Meiji Japan",
note="Includes bibliographical references and index",
isbn="9780674975163",
language="English"
}