The Understanding of the Natural Landscape in the Idea of Feng-shui

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  • 風水思想における自然景観の捉え方に関する研究
  • フウスイ シソウ ニ オケル シゼン ケイカン ノ トラエカタ ニカンスルケン

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Feng-shui, one of the eastern ideas, proposed the earth as a ‘ creature ’. The idea of Feng-shui teaches us that the mountain would not be composed by the mineral and soil but has soul and spirit of a ‘dragon ’(ryuu). The stone reflects the mountain's ‘bone’; the soil is the mountain's ‘ meat’; and the vegetation is defined as the mountain's ‘skin or epidermis’. The bone, meat and skin are connected by the river which is as the mountain's ‘blood line’. The earth has been considered as a metaphor of the human body, so that we should keep in mind ‘the unity of people and nature’. In this way, Feng-shui as the eastern theory contributes a specific useful technique in reading the landscape to find a natural principle for planning and designing building and space.

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