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Japan and the culture of the four seasons : = nature, literature, and the arts /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Japan and the culture of the four seasons :/ Haruo Shirane.
Reminder of title:	nature, literature, and the arts /
Author:	Shirane, Haruo,
Published:	New York :Columbia University Press, : c2013.,
Description:	xxi, 311 p., [8] p. of plates :ill. (some col.) ;24 cm.
Subject:	Japanese literature - History and criticism. -
Subject:	Japan -
ISBN:	9780231152815 (pbk.) :

Japan and the culture of the four seasons : = nature, literature, and the arts /
Shirane, Haruo,1951-.

Japan and the culture of the four seasons :nature, literature, and the arts /Haruo Shirane. - New York :Columbia University Press,c2013. - xxi, 311 p., [8] p. of plates :ill. (some col.) ;24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-258) and indexes.

Introduction : secondary nature, climate, and landscape --

Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media--from poetry and screen painting to tea ceremonies, flower arrangements, and annual observances. In Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons, Haruo Shirane shows how, when, and why this practice developed and explicates the richly encoded social, religious, and political meanings of this imagery. Refuting the belief that this tradition reflects Japan's agrarian origin and supposedly mild climate, Shirane traces the establishment of seasonal topics to the poetry composed by the urban nobility in the eighth century. After becoming highly codified and influencing visual arts in the tenth and eleventh centuries, the seasonal topics and their cultural associations evolved and spread to other genres, eventually settling in the popular culture of the early modern period. Contrasted with the elegant images of nature derived from court poetry was the agrarian view of nature based on rural life. The two landscapes began to intersect in the medieval period, creating a complex, layered web of competing associations. Shirane discusses a wide array of representations of nature and the four seasons in many genres, originating in both the urban and the rural perspective: textual (poetry, chronicles, tales), cultivated (gardens, flower arrangement), material (kimonos, screens), performative (noh, festivals), and gastronomic (tea ceremony, food rituals). He reveals how this kind of 'secondary nature,' which flourished in Japan's urban architecture and gardens, fostered and idealized a sense of harmony with the natural world just at the moment it was disappearing. Illuminating the deeper meaning behind Japanese aesthetics and artifacts, Shirane clarifies the use of natural images and seasonal topics and the changes in their cultural associations and function across history, genre, and community over more than a millennium. In this fascinating book, the four seasons are revealed to be as much a cultural construction as a reflection of the physical world.--book jacket.

ISBN: 9780231152815 (pbk.) :US25.00Subjects--Topical Terms:

876894
Japanese literature
--History and criticism.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

1100468
Japan

LC Class. No.: PL721.S4 / S55 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 895.6/0936

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