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‘The Process of Training in the Nine Stages’

Appendix to ‘the Nine Stages’

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The Theory of Beauty in the Classical Aesthetics of Japan
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The training process: ‘firstly in the Middle Three, secondly in the High Three, and then, lastly in the Low Three’, should be explained in the following manner.

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  1. The ‘Flower’ means here the technical precision transformed into an aesthetic value.

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  2. An expression taken from the famous Zen poem Shôdbka (‘A Song of the Realization of the Way’), by Master Yôka of the T’ang dynasty.

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Motokiyo, Z. (1981). ‘The Process of Training in the Nine Stages’. In: The Theory of Beauty in the Classical Aesthetics of Japan. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3481-3_7

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