000455867 000__ 04312cam\a2200457\a\4500 000455867 001__ 455867 000455867 005__ 20210513160609.0 000455867 006__ m\\\\\\\\d\\\\\\\\ 000455867 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000455867 008__ 130315s2012\\\\nyua\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000455867 010__ $$z 2011033921 000455867 020__ $$a9780231526524 (electronic bk.) 000455867 020__ $$z9780231152808 000455867 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn794493953 000455867 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10556534 000455867 035__ $$a455867 000455867 040__ $$aCaPaEBR$$cCaPaEBR 000455867 043__ $$aa-ja--- 000455867 05014 $$aPL721.S4$$bS55 2012eb 000455867 08204 $$a895.6/0936$$223 000455867 1001_ $$aShirane, Haruo,$$d1951- 000455867 24510 $$aJapan and the culture of the four seasons$$h[electronic resource] :$$bnature, literature, and the arts /$$cHaruo Shirane. 000455867 260__ $$aNew York :$$bColumbia University Press,$$c2012. 000455867 300__ $$a1 online resource (xxi, 311 p.) :$$bill. 000455867 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 000455867 5050_ $$aIntroduction: Secondary nature, climate, and landscape -- Poetic topics and the making of the four seasons -- Visual culture, classical poetry, and linked verse -- Interiorization, flowers, and social ritual -- Rural landscape, social difference, and conflict -- Trans-seasonality, talismans, and landscape -- Annual observances, famous places, and entertainment -- Seasonal pyramid, parody, and botany -- Conclusion: History, genre, and social community. 000455867 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000455867 520__ $$a"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. 000455867 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000455867 650_0 $$aJapanese literature$$xHistory and criticism. 000455867 650_0 $$aSeasons in literature. 000455867 650_0 $$aArts and society$$zJapan. 000455867 650_0 $$aPhilosophy of nature in literature. 000455867 650_0 $$aSeasons in art$$zJapan. 000455867 650_0 $$aNature in art. 000455867 651_0 $$aJapan$$xCivilization. 000455867 655_0 $$aElectronic books. 000455867 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aShirane, Haruo, 1951-$$tJapan and the culture of the four seasons.$$dNew York : Columbia University Press, c2012$$z9780231152808$$w(DLC) 2011033921$$w(OCoLC)693812400 000455867 8520_ $$bacq 000455867 85280 $$bebk$$hEbrary 000455867 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=895144$$zOnline Access 000455867 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:455867$$pGLOBAL_SET 000455867 980__ $$aEBOOK 000455867 980__ $$aBIB 000455867 982__ $$aEbook 000455867 983__ $$aOnline