
Books / Reviews | THE YEAR IN BOOKS Dec 23, 2012
Seasonality, internal awareness
by David Burleigh
"Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature and the Arts" (Columbia University Press) by Haruo Shirane. The whole seasonal consciousness of Japan, so meticulously considered and observed, is an intangible cultural tradition, though it has a certain physical embodiment in saijiki, ...