Toward the Aesthetic Appreciation of the Haptics and Tastes

Abstract

In this paper, the author considers the feasibility of the aesthetic appreciation of the haptics, smells, and tastes. Generally, these sensory domains are not regarded as the subject of the aesthetics mainly because they do not have an artefactual object. Here the author does not give a conclusion for the question whether they could be the subject of the aesthetics or not. Instead, the author illustrates some examples of the “haptic aesthetics” through the Japanese teacups, and gives some examples of the “aesthetic concepts of the taste” through the descriptions of the taste of Japanese sakes.