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| | Japanese Art and The Japanese View of Nature (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Rather, Japanese people have taken certain elements of nature--flowers, snow, and the moon, symbolizing respectively the continuum of nature, the antithesis of nature's life-giving powers, and the comprehensive and unchanging truth that governs all things (which itself includes the first two elements)--and understood themselves to be an integral part of this context. |
 | | Japanese art is thus a manifestation of this desire to be at one with nature. |
 | | Traditional Japanese verse, for example, in both its waka (31 syllable) and haiku (17syllable) forms, was an immediate part of the life of the ordinary person as well, a medium borrowed in particular by lovers and would-be lovers to relay their deepest sentiments to the object of their affections. |
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