Author: Haruo Shirane

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2011-08-09

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 0231152809

Elegant representations of nature, explicitly the four seasons, fill a wide range of Japanese genres and media, from poetry and screen painting to tea ceremony, flower arrangement, and annual observances. Haruo Shirane shows how, when, and why this first occurred and explicates the richly encoded meanings these representations embodied.