TY  - BOOK
T1  - Flowers, birds, wind, and moon the phenomenology of nature in Japanese culture
T2  - Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyo Shinko Zaidan)
A1  - Matsuoka, Seigow 1944-
A2  - Noble, David
LA  - English
LA  - Japanese
PP  - Tokyo, Japan
PB  - Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture
YR  - 2020
ED  - First English edition.
UL  - https://tuklas.up.edu.ph/Record/UP-8027390931312570167
AB  - "Japanese culture is deeply rooted in nature--from literature to the visual arts, and from religious practice to daily life. How, when, and why this close association with nature developed is explored in this book by bestselling author Matsuoka Seigow. Using ten key motifs--mountains, paths, deities, wind, birds, flowers, buddhas, time, dreams, and moon--each of which serves as a lens on different aspects of Japanese culture, Matsuoka ranges from history and ethnology to the arts. He also explores the insights that emerge when traditional sensibilities are examined from the perspective of modern science. Japanese concepts of time, interval, and otherness, though arrived at intuitively, overlap with how contemporary fields such as quantum physics and relativity theory grapple with issues of uncertainty, indeterminacy, and ambiguity. Matsuoka proposes that throughout history, the phenomena of nature and the kaleidoscope of seasonal change have functioned as a system of recombinant codes for the expression of the Japanese sensibility. This unique multimedia system for the cultural construction of nature has generated the essential creative motifs of Japanese literature, fine arts, and craft, which in turn have shaped every aspect of Japanese life and thought"--Back cover.
OP  - 319
NO  - "This book is a translation of Kachofugetsu no kagaku ... which was originally published by Tank?osha in 1994."--Title page verso.
CN  - PL721.N3 M3813 2020
SN  - 9784866581392 (hardback)
SN  - 4866581395 (hardback)
KW  - Nature and civilization : Japan.
KW  - Signs and symbols : Japan.
KW  - Nature in literature.
KW  - Nature in art.
KW  - Phenomenology.
KW  - Nature and nurture.
KW  - Japan : Civilization.
ER  -