The Movement Of Clouds Around Mt Fuji
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The Movement Of Clouds Around Mt Fuji
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Author : Helmut Völter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
The Movement Of Clouds Around Mt Fuji written by Helmut Völter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Clouds categories.
A 15 year photographic meditation on the clouds surrounding Mount Fuji In the late 1920s, Japanese physicist Masanao Abe built an observatory with a view of Mount Fuji. From it, over the course of fifteen years, he recorded the clouds that surrounded the mountain. He was interested in the scientific question of how the air currents around Fuji could be visualized by means of film and photography. Albeit unintentionally, Abe's motifs fit into a long iconographic tradition: the mountain and the clouds. For decades his archive was left untouched in a Tokyo garden shed. Helmut Völter, who discovered Abe's legacy while working on his book Cloud Studies, sifted through the images of the passionate cineaste who saw a combination of individual images, moving pictures and stereo recordings as the ideal form of scientific evidence. The mere contemplation of these dynamic cloud photographs centring on snow-covered Fuji seems to lift the viewer into the air.
Faith In Mount Fuji
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Author : Janine Anderson Sawada
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2021-12-31
Faith In Mount Fuji written by Janine Anderson Sawada and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-31 with Religion categories.
Even a fleeting glimpse of Mount Fuji’s snow-capped peak emerging from the clouds in the distance evokes the reverence it has commanded in Japan from ancient times. Long considered sacred, during the medieval era the mountain evolved from a venue for solitary ascetics into a well-regulated pilgrimage site. With the onset of the Tokugawa period, the nature of devotion to Mount Fuji underwent a dramatic change. Working people from nearby Edo (now Tokyo) began climbing the mountain in increasing numbers and worshipping its deity on their own terms, leading to a widespread network of devotional associations known as Fujikō. In Faith in Mount Fuji Janine Sawada asserts that the rise of the Fuji movement epitomizes a broad transformation in popular religion that took place in early modern Japan. Drawing on existing practices and values, artisans and merchants generated new forms of religious life outside the confines of the sectarian establishment. Sawada highlights the importance of independent thinking in these grassroots phenomena, making a compelling case that the new Fuji devotees carved out enclaves for subtle opposition to the status quo within the restrictive parameters of the Tokugawa order. The founding members effectively reinterpreted materials such as pilgrimage maps, talismans, and prayer formulae, laying the groundwork for the articulation of a set of remarkable teachings by Jikigyō Miroku (1671–1733), an oil peddler who became one of the group’s leading ascetic practitioners. His writings fostered a vision of Mount Fuji as a compassionate parental deity who mandated a new world of economic justice and fairness in social and gender relations. The book concludes with a thought-provoking assessment of Jikigyō’s suicide on the mountain as an act of commitment to world salvation that drew on established ascetic practice even as it conveyed political dissent. Faith in Mount Fuji is a pioneering work that contains a wealth of in-depth analysis and original interpretation. It will open up new avenues of discussion among students of Japanese religions and intellectual history, and supply rich food for thought to readers interested in global perspectives on issues of religion and society, ritual culture, new religions, and asceticism.
Hokusai S Mount Fuji
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Author : Jocelyn Bouquillard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-06
Hokusai S Mount Fuji written by Jocelyn Bouquillard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06 with Art categories.
Presents Hokusai fascination for nature with a focus on the development of landscape prints, along with a presentation of the Mt Fuji series. Before each engraving, this work includes a note listing the specifications and a description of the drawing that focuses on the symbolism of the images and places the work in its cultural context.
Hokusai
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Author : Timothy Clark
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-05
Hokusai written by Timothy Clark and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05 with categories.
A major publication on Hokusai's remarkable late work, incorporating fresh scholarship on the sublime paintings and prints the artist created in the last thirty years of his life
Krakatoa
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Author : Simon Winchester
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2004-06-03
Krakatoa written by Simon Winchester and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-03 with Nature categories.
Simon Winchester's brilliant chronicle of the destruction of the Indonesian island of Krakatoa in 1883 charts the birth of our modern world. He tells the story of the unrecognized genius who beat Darwin to the discovery of evolution; of Samuel Morse, his code and how rubber allowed the world to talk; of Alfred Wegener, the crack-pot German explorer and father of geology. In breathtaking detail he describes how one island and its inhabitants were blasted out of existence and how colonial society was turned upside-down in a cataclysm whose echoes are still felt to this day.
Dream Big Little Scientists
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Author : Michelle Schaub
language : en
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Release Date : 2020-02-18
Dream Big Little Scientists written by Michelle Schaub and has been published by Charlesbridge Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-18 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Twelve kids. A dozen bedtimes. Endless sweet ways to say goodnight with science! Spark curiosity and exploration with this innovative bedtime story for budding scientists that introduces eleven branches of science. From astronomy to physics to chemistry to geology, this STEM picture book will help kids get excited to explore. Includes further information about each branch of science.
The World Book Encyclopedia
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
The World Book Encyclopedia written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Encyclopedias and dictionaries categories.
An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.
Volcanic Hazards Risks And Disasters
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Author : Paolo Papale
language : en
Publisher: Academic Press
Release Date : 2014-10-29
Volcanic Hazards Risks And Disasters written by Paolo Papale and has been published by Academic Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-29 with Nature categories.
Volcanic Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides you with the latest scientific developments in volcano and volcanic research, including causality, impacts, preparedness, risk analysis, planning, response, recovery, and the economics of loss and remediation. It takes a geoscientific approach to the topic while integrating the social and economic issues related to volcanoes and volcanic hazards and disasters. Throughout the book case studies are presented of historically relevant volcanic and seismic hazards and disasters as well as recent catastrophes, such as Chile’s Puyehue volcano eruption in June 2011. Puts the expertise of top volcanologists, seismologists, geologists, and geophysicists selected by a world-renowned editorial board at your fingertips Presents you with the latest research—including case studies of prominent volcanoes and volcanic hazards and disasters—on causality, economic impacts, fatality rates, and earthquake preparedness and mitigation Numerous tables, maps, diagrams, illustrations, photographs, and video captures of hazardous processes support you in grasping key concepts
Plate Tectonics Volcanoes And Earthquakes
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Author : John P. Rafferty Associate Editor, Earth Sciences
language : en
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Release Date : 2010-08-15
Plate Tectonics Volcanoes And Earthquakes written by John P. Rafferty Associate Editor, Earth Sciences and has been published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Presents an introduction to volcanoes and earthquakes, explaining how the movement of the Earth's interior plates cause their formation and describing the volcanoes which currently exist around the world as well as some of the famous earthquakes of the nineteenth through twenty-first cenuturies.
Source Book For Volcanic Hazards Zonation
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Author : Dwight Raymond Crandell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
Source Book For Volcanic Hazards Zonation written by Dwight Raymond Crandell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Natural disasters categories.