Water of the Sky: A Dictionary of 2,000 Japanese Rain Words
暫譯: 天空之水:2000個日本雨詞典

Ando, Miya, Goodall, Hollis, Halifax, Joan

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2025-11-04
  • 售價: $1,270
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,207
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 208
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 0262049864
  • ISBN-13: 9780262049863
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商品描述

A breathtakingly elegant visual dictionary of 2000 Japanese words for rain, with 100 drawings in indigo.

In Water of the Sky, artist Miya Ando offers us a beautifully rich, bilingual visual dictionary for rain. Through a collection of 2,000 Japanese words, their English interpretations, and 100 drawings, Ando describes the breadth and diversity of rain's many expressions: when it falls, how it falls, and how its observer might be transformed physically or emotionally by its presence. The words range from prosaic to esoteric, extending from the meteorological (mukaame, or "very fine rain that falls in spring") to the mystical (bunryūu, or "rain that splits a dragon's body in half") and from the minute (kisame, or "raindrops that fall off the leaves and branches of trees") to the vast (takuu, or "blessed rain that quenches all things in the universe").

Ando's visual interpretations of these terms are not so much illustrations as evocations, attempts to embody or imagine each rain's precise and essential quality. The book presents 100 of these 2,000 drawings of rain accompanied by the full index of 2,000 Japanese words and their approximate English equivalents, presented alphabetically using a hybrid Japanese-English alphabetization rubric.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

一部令人驚嘆的優雅視覺辭典,收錄2000個與雨相關的日文單詞,並附有100幅靛藍色插圖。

天空之水中,藝術家安藤美也(Miya Ando)為我們提供了一本美麗而豐富的雙語視覺辭典,專注於雨的主題。透過2000個日文單詞及其英文解釋,以及100幅插圖,安藤描述了雨的多種表達方式:它何時降臨、如何降落,以及觀察者如何因其存在而在身體或情感上受到影響。這些單詞的範圍從平常到深奧,涵蓋了氣象學的(mukaame,意指「春天降下的非常細小的雨」)到神秘的(bunryū,意指「將龍的身體劈成兩半的雨」),以及從微小的(kisame,意指「從樹葉和樹枝上掉落的雨滴」)到廣大的(takuu,意指「滋潤宇宙中所有事物的祝福之雨」)。

安藤對這些術語的視覺詮釋不僅僅是插圖,而是對每種雨的精確和本質特質的具象化或想像。這本書展示了2000幅雨的插圖中的100幅,並附有2000個日文單詞的完整索引及其大致的英文對應詞,按照混合的日文-英文字母順序排列。

作者簡介

Miya Ando is a Japanese and American artist. Her work examines the dialectic coexistence of Eastern and Western cultures through the lens of natural phenomena and is included in many private and public collections, including that of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Miya Ando 是一位日本和美國的藝術家。她的作品透過自然現象的視角探討東西方文化的辯證共存,並被納入許多私人和公共收藏中,包括洛杉磯縣藝術博物館的收藏。