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Copyright © 2025 by Jon L. Pitt
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First published 2025 by Cornell University Press
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Pitt, Jon L., author.
Title: Botanical imagination : rethinking plants in modern Japan / Jon L. Pitt.
Description: Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2025. | Series: The environments of East Asia | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2024032715 (print) | LCCN 2024032716 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501780967 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501780950 (paperback) | ISBN 9781501780981 (epub) | ISBN 9781501780974 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Japanese literature—20th century—History and criticism. | Japanese literature—21st century—History and criticism. | Plants in literature. | Motion pictures—Japan—History and criticism. | Plants in motion pictures. | Human ecology—Japan. | LCGFT: Literary criticism. | Film criticism.
Classification: LCC PL726.67.P5 P58 2025 (print) | LCC PL726.67.P5 (ebook) | DDC 895.609/364213—dc23/eng/20241030
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024032715
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024032716
Cover photograph: Hiroshi Clark, Untitled.