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The Empire of Signs: Semiotic essays on Japanese culture
Edited by Yoshihiko Ikegami
[Foundations of Semiotics 8] 1991
► pp. v–vi

Table of contents

Introduction: Semiotics and Culture1
The Notion of the Sign in Japanese Tradition25
Creative Interpretation of the Text and the Japanese Mentality33
Characters that Represent, Reflect, and Translate Culture in the Context of the Revolution in Modern Art57
The Images of Japanese Landscapes: A Typological Approach85
Semiosis in Architecture: A Systemic Analysis of the Traditional Towntextures in Japan101
Intertextuality in Japanese Traditional Music139
The Forbidden Chamber” Motif in a Japanese Fairy Tale157
Aspects of Japanese Nonverbal Behavior in Relation to Traditional Culture181
Cosmological Dimension of the Japanese Theater219
Literary Semiotics of Suburban Houses241
The Ghost Trio: Beckett, Yeats, and Noh257
A Semiotic Approach to the Role of Paritta in the Buddhist Ritual269
“Do-language and Become-language”: Two Contrasting Types of Linguistic Representation285
Index327


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