Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts
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- doi:10.1093/isle/ist103
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- Ursula K. Heise
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- 2013
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Haruo Shirane's breathtaking survey of more than 1,000 years of nature representations in Japan immediately calls to mind Raymond Williams's The Country and the City (1973), his seminal analysis of 500 years of pastoral in British literature. Both Williams and Shirane focus on literary portrayals of nature that helped to shape national identity, and whose stylizations of landscapes and seasons overwrote alternative perspectives on the human uses of nature. For Williams, this was a matter of ideology critique, as he showed how pastoral served to obscure the real labor relations in resource extraction and agriculture. Shirane, too, sees the creation of what he calls “secondary nature”—aestheticized nature representations that replaced the encounter with real ecology, especially in courtly and urban circles—as at least in part ideological. But rather than a Marxist perspective, he uses a formal and historical approach to illuminate the social and temporal permutations of Japanese “secondary nature” from ca. 700 to the early twenty-first century.
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Ursula K. Heise. Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts. 2013. https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/ist103
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