Watsuji Tetsuroo

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Watsuji Tetsuro (1889-1960) was one of a small group of philosophers in
Japan during the twentieth century who brought Japanese philosophy to the
world. He wrote important works on both Eastern and Western philosophy and
philosophers, from ancient Greek, to Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard
and Heidegger, and from primitive Buddhism and ancient Japanese culture, to
Dogen (whose now famous writings Watsuji single-handedly rediscovered),
aesthetics, and Japanese ethics. His works on Japanese ethics are still
regarded as the definitive studies.
Influenced by Heidegger, Watsuji's Climate and Culture is both an
appreciation of, and a critique of Heidegger. In particular, Watsuji argues
that Heidegger under-emphasizes spatiality, and over-emphasizes temporality.
Watsuji contends that had Heidegger equally emphasized spatiality, it would
have tied him more firmly to the human world where we interact, both
fruitfully and negatively. We are inextricably social, connected in so many
ways, and ethics is the study of these social connections and positive ways
of interacting.

and so on, read it here

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/watsuji-tetsuro/

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another link
Watsuji Tetsuro's Contributions to Political Philosophy*
http://www.iuj.ac.jp/research/wpir001.htm

I do not know his position in the haiku world of Japan yet.

But I think in Japan we have the traditional saijiki to connect to the
seasons, which seem a good starting point for a saijiki project.

I will have to check out more about this fudo influence on the new German
saijiki project.

fudo, better fuudo (É÷ÅÚ)
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The German Kiyose at our Database will carry on as usual. So if you have a
german kigo to submit, please go ahead.
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