Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Minerals Yearbook
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
日本統計年鑑
Author: 総務省統計局
Publisher:
ISBN: 9784822342104
Category : Reference
Languages : ja
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9784822342104
Category : Reference
Languages : ja
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: M. Epstein
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270581
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1471
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270581
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1471
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons
Author: Haruo Shirane
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231526520
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
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 origins 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 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.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231526520
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
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 origins 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 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.
Japan Business
Author: Christine Genzberger
Publisher: World Trade Press
ISBN: 9780963186423
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
An enclyclopedic view of doing business with Japan. Contains the how-to, where-to and who-with information needed to operate internationally.
Publisher: World Trade Press
ISBN: 9780963186423
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
An enclyclopedic view of doing business with Japan. Contains the how-to, where-to and who-with information needed to operate internationally.
The Japanese Economy
Author: Peter Drysdale
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415174374
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415174374
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The Japan Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
The Statesman's Year-book
Author: Frederick Martin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1654
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1654
Book Description
The Japan Christian Year Book
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: Mortimer Epstein
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023027059X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1480
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023027059X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1480
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.