Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_1080
dc.contributor.author	Shirane Haruo
dc.title	Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons. Nature, Literature and the Arts
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This paper examines the major functions of the representations of nature in traditional Japanese culture with an emphasis on the following: 1) the codification of nature and the seasons in a wide range of Japanese cultural phenomena, beginning with classical poetry (waka) and scroll paintings (emaki), from at least the tenth century onward; 2) the cause, manner, and function of that codification, particularly the social and religious functions; 3) a major historical change in the representation of nature in the late medieval period (fourteenth to sixteenth centuries) to include more farm-village based views of nature and the seasons; and 4) the dynamic of intertwining courtly and popular representations of nature in the early modern period (seventeenth to nineteenth centuries).
dc.relation.ispartof	Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies
dc.relation.ispartof	Arts and Literature
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2017-12-15
dc.dateAccepted	2017-03-27
dc.dateSubmitted	2016-10-07
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-172-0/japan-and-the-culture-of-the-four-seasons/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/6969-171-3/CFJS-7-1
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8976
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9395
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-172-0
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-171-3
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
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dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Four seasons
dc.subject	Four seasons
dc.subject	Japanese culture
dc.subject	Japanese culture
dc.subject	Nature
dc.subject	Nature
dc.subject	Social and talismanic functions
dc.subject	Social and talismanic functions

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Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons

Nature, Literature and the Arts

Haruo Shirane Columbia University, New York, USA

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This paper examines the major functions of the representations of nature in traditional Japanese culture with an emphasis on the following: 1) the codification of nature and the seasons in a wide range of Japanese cultural phenomena, beginning with classical poetry (waka) and scroll paintings (emaki), from at least the tenth century onward; 2) the cause, manner, and function of that codification, particularly the social and religious functions; 3) a major historical change in the representation of nature in the late medieval period (fourteenth to sixteenth centuries) to include more farm-village based views of nature and the seasons; and 4) the dynamic of intertwining courtly and popular representations of nature in the early modern period (seventeenth to nineteenth centuries).

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Dec. 15, 2017

Accepted

March 27, 2017

Submitted

Oct. 7, 2016

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978-88-6969-172-0

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978-88-6969-171-3

Keywords: Japanese culture • Social and talismanic functions • Four seasons • Nature

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