The History of Japan in Flower, Bird, Wind and Moon

The Japanese aesthetics behind Osamu Dazai, Yasunari Kawabata, Hirokazu Yokoi, and Makoto Shinkai! 9 types of natural scenery and romantic Japanese culture!

★Winner of the 14th Japan Popular Literature Research Prize, and highly praised by the Japanese philosophical critic and founder of "Umehara Nihongo", Takeshi Umehara.

★Selected nine types of representative natural scenery, understanding all Japanese aesthetics from the source, and tracing the sense of seasons that busy city dwellers are losing day by day.

★Rambles from the Jomon era to the present, covering literature, painting, music, folklore, architecture, and daily life, and examines Japanese life in the smallest detail.

What is Japanese aesthetics without talking about natural scenery!

Since ancient times, Japan has built its history and culture on its unique natural environment. Japanese literature, art, architecture, religion, folklore, and daily life all contain core connotations represented by natural scenery. In this book, renowned Japanese scholar Takahashi Chiken breaks down culture, folklore, and history using microscopic imagery such as trees, flowers, birds, songbirds, and wind and rain as a starting point. The dragonflies favored by Emperor Jimmu, the winds in Sugawara Michizane's songs, and the cloud-related myths in the Kojiki (Chronicles of the Ancient World) offer a glimpse into Japanese tradition, and we are able to slow down, capture the seasons in the midst of busy modern life, and trace the beauty of the natural world that is being forgotten.

Takahashi Chikenpo, a Japanese writer, literary critic, and executive director of the Japan Literary Artists Association, was born in Tokyo in January 1943, graduated from the Department of Japanese Literature of Rikkyo University, and was the editor-in-chief of the magazine History Reader, and is the author of Edo Traveler, History of Japan in Meishan, History of Meishan Culture, History of Folklore of Meishan, and Edo Eatsai: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. 2001, with his book The History of Japan in Flower, Bird, and Moon, Takahashi Chikenpo was awarded the 14th Japan Popular Literature Research Prize. In 2001, Chikenzo Takahashi was awarded the 14th Japan Popular Literature Research Prize for his "History of Japan in Flower, Bird, and Moon".