Winding River Village: Poetics of a Korean Landscape

Winding River Village: Poetics of a Korean Landscape
ISBN-10
6235609787
ISBN-13
9786235609782
Category
Nature
Pages
324
Language
English
Published
2021-12-20
Publisher
Nilacakra
Authors
Kim, Sung-Kyun

Description

In early summer, when the sun rises over Hahoe village, its beams dance on the dew-laden foliage of the mountain, and pour down over the water of the river. The air becomes particularly clear and refreshing. Smoke from breakfast-fires rises straight above each house and disappears into the infinity of blue sky. The mist hovering in valleys and swales gradually fades away. There evolves a quality of mysterious sublimity, tranquility, and serenity to the morning that launches a hopeful day in a beautiful way. Soon the cawing crows break the calmness. This village may be the distinct kind that all the great Oriental sages thought over to be a Utopia.

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