Although Seibutsu no Sekai (The World of Living Things), the seminal 1941 work of Kinji Imanishi, had an enormous impact in Japan, both on scholars and on the g

What is religion? How does it work? Many natural abilities of the human mind are involved, and crucial among them is the ability to use language. This volume br

Documents the great diversity in how people perceive their natural environment and how they come to terms with nature, be it through brute force, rituals or ide

From the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century Japan saw the creation, development, and apparent disappearance of the field of natural history, or "ho

Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media—from poetry and screen painting to tea ceremonies, f