Overview

Tokyo Boogie-woogie and D.T. Suzuki seeks to understand the tensions between competing cultures, generations, and beliefs in Japan during the years following World War II, through the lens of one of its best known figures and one of its most forgotten. Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (D.T. Suzuki) was a prolific scholar and translator of Buddhism, Zen, and Chinese and Japanese philosophy and religious history. In the post-war years, he was a central figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the United States and other English-language countries, frequently traveling and speaking to this end. His works helped define much of these interpretations of ‘Eastern Religion’ in English, as well as shape views of modern Japanese Buddhism. However, against this famous figure is a largely unknown or forgotten shape: Suzuki Alan Masaru. Alan was D.T. Suzuki’s adopted son and, though he remained within his father’s shadow, is mostly known as the lyricist of the iconic 60’s pop hit Tokyo Boogie Woogie. Perhaps due to his frequent scandals and the fraught nature of the relationship, he remains unmentioned and unstudied by scholars and historians. Yet by exploring the nature of the relationship between these two, Professor Yamada digs into the conflicting memories and experiences of these generations in Japan.

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Author:   Shoji Yamada
Publisher:   The University of Michigan Press
Imprint:   The University of Michigan Press
Weight:   0.151kg
ISBN:  

9780472055302

ISBN 10:   0472055305
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   30 June 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Hidden Origins The Adopted Child Daisetz’s Parents Zen Training Bottom of the Heap Daisetz’s Image of Women Daisetz’s Marriage Beatrice and Okono Alan in the “Daisetz Dairies” Daisetz’s Dependant Family The Juvenile Delinquent A Prison Without Bars Daisetz’s Fears Daisetz’s Philosophy of Education A Parent’s Hope Alan Goes Wild Womanizing Rears Its Head Daisetz’s Views on Sexual Desire “Confinement” on Mt. Koya Repeated Offenses Glimpses of Brilliance Japan-America Students Conference Alan Discusses Zen A Novelist’s Misunderstanding Alan’s Second Japan-America Students Conference Alan Discusses Japaneseness Daisetz’s Indifference Two Red Threads of Fate Beatrice’s Health Takes a Turn for the Worse A Man with Many Loves Hidden Facts A Mother's Death Daisetz’s Mourning First Marriage To Shanghai Tokyo Boogie-woogie Shanghai Reunion with Ike Mariko “Tokyo Boogie-woogie” Is Born Second Marriage Alan’s Drinking The Meeting with a Psychiatrist A Sudden Parting Daisetz’s Anxiety Daisetz and the Beat Generation American “Comrades” The Basis of Transcendentalism Early Preaching Zen in English Art Encounters Zen The Birth of the Beat Generation Recognition of Daisetzu Increases A Change in the Life of the Great Scholar San Francisco Renaissance Daisetz’s Big Break On the Road America’s Dharma Year The Context of the Chicago Review Zen Special Issue The Dharma Bums A Once-in-a-lifetime Conversation The Beats and Zen: Parting of the Ways The Undutiful Son Alan During the 1950s Daisetz Returns Home The Incident Alan’s Loneliness Branded as an “Undutiful Son” The Death of Daisetz Reconsidering the Parent-Child Relationship Great Wisdom and Great Compassion Father and Son Bibliography Appendix 1: Family Tree Appendix 2: Map of Kyoto Appendix 3: Chronology Index

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Shoji Yamada is Professor in the Research Department of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies.

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