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Title:
Japan and the culture of the four seasons : nature, literature, and the arts
Author:
Shirane, Haruo, 1951-
ISBN:
9780231526524
Publication Information:
New York : Columbia University Press, 2012.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxi, 311 pages) : illustrations
Abstract:
Elegant representations of nature, explicitly the four seasons, fill a wide range of Japanese genres and media-from poetry and screen painting to tea ceremony, flower arrangement, and annual observances. Haruo Shirane shows, for the first time, how, when, and why this occurred and explicates the richly encoded social, religious, and political meanings these representations embodied. Refuting the long held belief that this phenomenon reflects agrarian origins, this book demonstrates how elegant representations of the four seasons first emerged in an urban environment among nobility.
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