A Japanese View of Nature
Language: en
Pages: 152
Authors: Kinji Imanishi
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-05 - Publisher: Routledge

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Although Seibutsu no Sekai (The World of Living Things), the seminal 1941 work of Kinji Imanishi, had an enormous impact in Japan, both on scholars and on the g
Japanese Images of Nature
Language: en
Pages: 306
Authors: Pamela J. Asquith
Categories: Aesthetics, Japanese
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Documents the great diversity in how people perceive their natural environment and how they come to terms with nature, be it through brute force, rituals or ide
Religion, Language, and the Human Mind
Language: en
Pages: 537
Authors: Paul Chilton
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-03 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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What is religion? How does it work? Many natural abilities of the human mind are involved, and crucial among them is the ability to use language. This volume br
The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan
Language: en
Pages: 429
Authors: Federico Marcon
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-07-16 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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From the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century Japan saw the creation, development, and apparent disappearance of the field of natural history, or "ho
Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons
Language: en
Pages: 316
Authors: Haruo Shirane
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-20 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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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, f