Abstract
Appreciation of the natural environment has long been an institutionalized part of Japanese culture. Conventions of Japanese literature employ natural images to convey human emotions within a spiritual framework of the native Japanese philosophies of Zen Buddhism andShintoism, and the broader Eastern approach of harmony with nature. Set in a geographically unique region of Japan, Kawabata Yasunari's novel Yukiguni (Snow Country) illustrates fundamental elements of Japanese landscape perception. Alienation of the urban dweller from nature, a major theme of the novel, is relevant to the changes in environmental and cultural attitudes found in contemporary Japan.
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