Cherry Blossom Petals. Flowers in Japanese Painting and Poetry
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The aesthetic concept of "setsugetsuka" (lit.: snow, moon, flowers) is one of the key concepts for the entire Japanese culture. And for the process of admiring the beauty of flowers, there is a special term - "hanami", which has no analogues in the languages of other peoples. Perhaps it is flowers that are the key to the entire Japanese culture... This is a collection of the best examples of classical Japanese poetry, numbering 150 poems by eighty-two poets of the 2nd-20th centuries, connected by a single theme - flowers and the harmony of nature. For centuries, Japanese poets and painters competed with each other, singing the beauty of blooming sakura, orange trees, chrysanthemums, carnations, irises, lotus and the amazing "Fuji flower" - wisteria... Together, they created a unique "language of flowers", the symbolism of which is different from the European one. Our anthology combines Japanese poetry, painting and the beauty of nature. We have collected the best poems of Japanese poets related to the theme of flowers - in translations of Alexander Brandt, Konstantin Balmont, Nikolai Pozdnyakov, Nikolai Azbelev, Nikolai Novich, Vasily Mendrin, Arkady Press, Pavel Sukhotin, Sergey Alymov, Venedikt Marta and others. And they are complemented by engravings and masterpieces of Japanese "flower" painting.
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