Meeting at a Thing in the Context of Japanese Culturality

Abstract

Meeting at a Thing in the Context of Japanese Culturality. – The author presents a personal insight into some of the features and manifestations of Japanese culturality and offers their projection to anthropological patterns common within Euro-Atlantic cultural space. As a key topic of the whole article the author sees “the Being present at hand together of things that occur” and its fulfilling while being confronted with “alienness” in the frames of existing anthropological patterns. During such processes is pointed to communicating and relation to “a word” as to an important features for understanding “aliennes” an sich.