著者

菅原 浩

出版者

長岡造形大学

雑誌

長岡造形大学研究紀要 = Nagaoka Institute of Design Bulletin (ISSN:13499033)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.19, pp.30-35, 2022-03

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Here we discussed the significance of animism in haiku poetry. We focused the “monistic animism” suggested by Nakazawa Shinʼichi, which states that animism can capture the invisible realm that the modern Western culture have failed to think about. We argue that haiku poems aim to become “the thing itself,” thereby creating poetic language to open the “communication” to something fundamental beyond human perception. From this perspective we read animistic haiku poetry by various poets, arguing that animist haiku culminated in Natsuishi Banʼyaʼs Science of Giant Rocks and Trees.