Visiting Professor Haruo Shirane (Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture and chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University) published the Japanese translation of his book, “Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts.”

Shirane was awarded the Yamagata Banto Prize – Osaka’s International Cultural Award and became the first recipient of the National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU) International Prize in Japanese Studies in recognition of this original book and his studies for many years.

In July 2019, the Global Japanese Studies model unit (TGU) held a commemorative lecture celebrating Shirane receiving the Yamagata Banto Prize – Osaka’s International Cultural Award, and many people attended this event.

We hope that this book will be an opportunity for you to find the latest research in Japanese Humanities Studies.

 

■Author: Haruo Shirane (Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture and chair of the

Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University)

■Title: Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts (Japanese translation)

■Published on May 22, 2020

■Details (in Japanese):      https://www.kadokawa.co.jp/product/321812000852/

■Book review (in Japanese): https://www.bookbang.jp/review/article/627528

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Original publication

■Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons　Nature, Literature, and the Arts

■Haruo Shirane

■Columbia University Press

■March 2012

■http://cup.columbia.edu/book/japan-and-the-culture-of-the-four-seasons/9780231152808