Japanese ceramics decor: the symbolic and imagery structure of a literary text
The paper discusses the features of symbolic language and structure of the artistic and symbolic text in the Japanese traditional ceramics decor. Those are a close relationship of the decor with the hieroglyphic writing of the Far East, a literary tradition, syncretic religious cults, and aesthetic and ethical doctrines of Japan. Understanding the symbolic - imagery construction and the structure of a literary text in Japanese ceramics allows us not only to bring the product into correlation with a particular cultural tradition in Japan, but also, in some cases, to establish date, due to the history of export production in the workshops of the country.