以“假名”解读日本视觉文化的美学特征

Understanding the Aesthetics Characteristic with the Japanese Kana

文字作为一个民族最重要的文化符号之一,其形成过程中已烙下该民族"基因"中的审美天性。日文假名起源于汉字,但与汉字不同,假名依靠的主要是非逻辑性思维记忆,一笔一画间的抽象形态无不体现日本视觉美学一生万物、万物归一的禅意。文章以日文假名的形式分析为渠道,目的是从新的角度理解日本这一由借鉴伊始却又独具本土魅力的视觉文化。

Written language,one of the most important cultural symbols,has been embedded the taste of a national＂gene＂.The Japanese kana depends on non-logical thinking to remember,which is different to its origin Chinese character.All the abstract shape in the strokes of Japanese kana reflects the Buddhist mood of＂one for all,all for one＂.This thesis explains Japanese special visual culture from the angle of the form of Japanese kana,which originated in other cultures but became a unique local spirit.