Author: Haruo Shirane
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2013-03-05
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 0231152817
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media. 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. Shirane discusses textual, cultivated, material, performative, and gastronomic representations of nature. He reveals how this kind of 'secondary nature, ' which flourished in Japan's urban environment, fostered and idealized a sense of harmony with the natural world just at the moment when it began to recede from view. Illuminating the deeper meaning behind Japanese aesthetics and artifacts, Shirane also clarifies the use of natural and seasonal topics as well as the changes in their cultural associations and functions across history, genre, and community over more than a millennium. In this book, the four seasons are revealed to be as much a cultural construction as a reflection of the physical world."--Back cover.
Author: Frank Brinkley
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2023-07-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781021639233
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This comprehensive survey of Japanese history, culture, and art is a must-read for anyone interested in this fascinating and complex country. The book covers everything from ancient times to the modern era, with detailed discussions of Japanese literature, painting, music, and other cultural achievements. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Frank Brinkley
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
Published: 2014-03-30
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781498045513
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This Is A New Release Of The Original 1901 Edition.
Author: F. Brinkley
Publisher: Lundberg Press
Published: 2011-07
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781446074688
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.