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Auteur(s) : Shirane, Haruo (1951-....). Auteur du texte
Titre(s) : Japan and the culture of the four seasons [Texte imprimé] : nature, literature, and the arts / Haruo Shirane
Publication : New York : Columbia University Press, c2012
Description matérielle : xxi, 311 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm
Comprend : Introduction : 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
; Appendix : Seasonal topics in key texts.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-258) and indexes
"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
Sujet(s) : Saisons -- Dans la littérature
Saisons -- Dans l'art
Littérature japonaise
Nature -- Dans l'art
Arts -- Société -- Japon
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780231152808 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN 0231152809 (cloth) (alk. paper). -
ISBN 9780231152815 (pbk.). - ISBN 0231152817 (pbk.). - ISBN 9780231526524 (e-book).
- ISBN 0231526520 (e-book)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43603811h
Notice n° :
FRBNF43603811
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