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Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons Nature, Literature, and the Arts - Haruo Shirane 2012 EPUB Columbia University Press BOOKS CULTURE AND ARTS
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Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons Nature, Literature, and the Arts
Author: Haruo Shirane
Year: 2012
Format: EPUB
File size: 32 MB
Language: ENG

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 origins 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.

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