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Title Japanese images of nature : cultural perspectives / edited by Pamela J. Asquith and Arne Kalland
Published Richmond : Curzon, 1997

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Description 290 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Series Man & nature in Asia series ; no. 1
Man and nature in Asia ; no. 1
Contents Japanese perceptions of nature : ideals and illusions / Arne Kalland and Pamela J. Asquith -- The four seasons : one of Japanese culture's most central concepts / Peter Ackermann -- Natural imagery in classical Japanese poetry : the equivalence of the literal and the figural / Sonja Arntzen -- Bijinga and nature : a single beauty / Pilar Cabanas -- Nature tamed : gardens as a microcosm of Japan's view of the world / Joy Hendry -- Watsuji Tetsuro's ecological approach : its philosophical foundation / Harumi Befu -- The unnatural as ideology : contesting brain death in Japan / Margaret Lock -- Interpretations of nature and the legitimation of gender differences : 'natural' links in the Japanese social field / Nancy Rosenberger -- Doing what comes naturally : media and marketing constructions of sexuality among Japanese adolescents / Merry I. White -- Mount Fuji and the cherry blossoms : a view from afar / Brian Moeran and Lise Skov -- The can-nonization of nature in Japanese culture : machinery of the natural in food modernization / Michael Ashkenazi -- Marketing nature in rural Japan / Okpyo Moon -- The soil as teacher : natural farming in a mountain village / John Knight -- Magical thought at the interface of nature and culture / Josef A. Kyburz. In0000000000000000
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Aesthetics, Japanese.
Human ecology -- Japan.
Natural history -- Japan.
Nature (Aesthetics)
Philosophy of nature.
SUBJECT Japan -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069361
Author Asquith, Pamela J., 1951-
Kalland, Arne.
Nordic Institute of Asian Studies.
ISBN 0700704442
0700704450