SPECIFICS OF JAPANESE AESTHETIC PERCEPTION
Despite the great role of artistic practice and the high concentration of aesthetic experience at all times in Japan, “art” there has not separated from “craft” quite as it happened in the West. What the West saw as aesthetic perception of reality was, to the Japanese, morally obligatory due to the peculiarities of the national understanding of the world. Some elements of the worldview which caused this, as well as some other features of the Japanese aesthetic consciousness, are discussed in this article.