The Ideal of Feminine Beauty: A Comparative Note

Author / Editor
Ando, Shinsuke.

Title
The Ideal of Feminine Beauty: A Comparative Note

Published
Poetica (Tokyo) 12 (1981): 3-9.

Description
A comparison of the medieval descriptions of idealized feminine beauty with depiction of women in medieval and modern Japanese literature points up characteristic Japanese aesthetics and philosophy of beauty.
In English.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.