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Article: Hothouse weeds: poetic responses to the botanical garden in modern Japan.
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- Mosaic (Winnipeg)
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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In the process of Japan's westernization and modernization, an herb garden within Tokyo limits is transformed into a "botanical garden"--a literal site where the Western, the imperial, the urban, and the poetic intersect. The botanical garden transcends its material confines in order to offer a literary trope for the forging of Japanese modern-style poetry and its kernel--interiority.
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