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Abstract In France and elsewhere, contemporary Japan crystallizes a whole imaginary world of deviance. Often caricatured as a country lax on pedo-criminality and the objectification of women, it arouses a mixture of attraction and repulsion that is highly …

Abstract We'll be looking at the idea behind the Japanese martial arts, as they are practised all over the world. Martial arts of Far Eastern origin are often treated outside Japan as if they were one of the essences of Japanese culture. France and the …

Abstract One aspect of Japonism studies that has not been sufficiently explored is the artistic phenomenon of the "return of Japonism" from France to Japan. There are many examples of Japanese painters who went to France and, consciously or unconsciously, …

Abstract Roland Barthes' L'Empire des signes (The Empire of Signs) is often regarded by specialists, if not as the product of pure fantasy, then at least as the imaginary manifestation of an unparalleled semiologist. However, given its repercussions on …

Abstract Almost non-existent until then, alien to the Japonism of the second half of the 19th century, reference to Zen became insistent and polymorphous in the arts, literature and thought, and even in certain broader sectors of the social body (martial …