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- Abe Kōbō, ix, 13–14, 28, 33, 55–79; “Dendrocacalia,” 21–23, 55–79, 63, 82, 102, 109, 210n20, 210n23; Green Stockings, 65; Inter Ice Age 4, 101; Kangaroo Notebook, 65; “Lead Egg,” 65; For the Night with No Name, 71; Woman of the Dunes, 65
- Abe Machiko, 55, 63
- acacia trees, 180–81, 183
- acclimatization, 125, 153, 155, 157, 173–81, 193
- adaptation, 6, 14, 19–20, 23, 30, 109–11, 145, 153, 163, 174–75, 179
- Airin shisō (Forest-Love Ideology), 77, 90, 117
- Akiyama Hiroyuki, 44
- alterity, 53, 147, 154, 155, 165
- Anarcho-Marxists, 21, 56, 63–64, 67, 70, 71, 76, 84
- animal studies, 3
- Anthropocene, 94
- anthropocentrism, 2–3, 7, 12, 93–94, 96, 134, 168–69
- anthropomorphism, 12–13, 36, 47, 50, 99–100, 164
- anti-immigration policies, 150, 152–53, 155, 166–68, 183–90
- Arakawa Tomotsugu, 50, 54, 208n32, 221n101
- Arishima Takeo, 64
- aspens, 3–4, 14, 19, 141, 192
- assemblages, 88, 102. See also forests
- asylum seekers, 152, 155, 182–86
- Backster, Cleve, 97, 99–100
- Bates, J. W., 34
- Bateson, Gregory, 12–16, 51, 191
- becoming, as process, 19–20
- becoming botanical, trope of, 1–28. See also botanical form/poetics; botanical subjectivity
- Bennett, Jane, 88
- biopower, 3, 203n6, 209n7
- Bird, Christopher. See The Secret Life of Plants
- Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands, 55, 57–60, 73, 77
- botanical empathy, 154, 163, 166–70, 174, 176–77, 179–81, 183–84, 186
- botanical form/poetics, 1–2, 6–7, 16–20, 39–42, 71, 85, 106, 120, 150, 174
- Botanical Society of Japan, 58
- botanical subjectivity, 6, 13–16, 19; botanical-anarchist subjectivity, 55–56, 63–68; cinematic-botanical subjectivity, 120, 127–31, 138; disturbance and destruction, 119, 123; dystopian, 21, 32, 56, 67–70, 133; forests and, 56, 80–95, 127; as humanlike, 100; interior/exterior divide, 61–62, 66, 68, 70, 72–73, 75, 77; liberatory, 71–72 (see also resistance); migration and, 172; moss-like, 41–47; multiple, 14, 19, 31, 34–38, 44–45, 45, 91–92, 105, 110, 120, 127, 143, 163, 175; resilience and, 32, 109–10, 113–14; silence and, 53; utopian, 21, 30, 46–47, 55, 56, 64–68, 70, 72, 127, 147, 198; violence and, 127, 131–33, 197–98
- Brodie, Nathaniel, 132, 144
- Buddhism, 90, 93, 108, 120, 122–23, 137, 151, 217n47
- cacti, 100–103, 106
- cedar trees (sugi), 80–81, 81, 83, 108–10, 123, 128–30, 159–60
- Chapman, David, 59–60
- cherry blossoms, 1, 8, 12, 16, 80, 161, 182–83, 204n14
- Chisso factory, 48–49
- cinematic-botanical subjectivity, 120, 127–31, 138
- classical Japanese aesthetics, x, 1, 8, 10–11, 16–17
- climate change, 2, 59, 116–17, 196
- Coccia, Emanuele, 8, 62, 94, 95, 203n6
- colonialism, Japanese, 6, 8, 20–23, 204n14; internal naichi and external gaichi, 59–62, 65, 72–73, 77, 78–79; in Korea, 48–49, 59, 78; patriotism and, 90; in postwar era memory, 55–79; propagandistic literature on, 75–78; resistance to, 30, 32–33, 46–49; resource extraction, 60, 117; scientific naming and, 78–79, 151; scientific research and, 32, 47–49, 60, 77; in Taiwan, 59, 84; violence of, 48–49, 56–57, 65, 75
- connectivity, 91, 200–201
- Connell, Katherine, 137
- consciousness, 31, 44, 68, 74–75, 94, 101, 104
- Conversation with a Cactus (2017), 106
- crises, 10, 22–23, 109, 192. See also climate change; colonialism, Japanese; migration; 3.11; World War II
- critical plant studies (CPS), ix–x, 2–12, 15–20, 23–26, 34, 168, 194, 201, 203n6, 204n9, 205n23; Japanese studies and, 7–12, 28; plant awareness disparity, 4–10, 204n9
- cyclical time, 39, 135, 137–42, 145, 147
- Darwin, Charles, 30, 43, 45, 59, 61–62, 64. See also social Darwinism
- Darwin, Erasmus, 52
- Darwin, Francis, 66–67
- Dauvergne, Peter, 117
- death, 25–26, 80–83, 90–91, 192; communication with spirits, 83, 96, 99, 101–3, 108–11, 113; futurity and, 119; rethinking, 191–92; trauma of, 81–82, 86. See also rebirth; suicide
- Deborin, Abram Moiseevich, 64
- deforestation, 10–11, 117, 137, 217n47
- dehumanization, 56, 153
- Deleuze, Gilles, 6, 19–21, 38, 157, 160, 162–63, 177, 185
- destructive plasticity, 93, 119–21, 123, 131–34, 148, 206n45
- disturbance ecology, 118–23, 127, 130–31, 136, 139, 144–45, 147, 192
- Dodo Arata, 137, 138, 147
- Dole, Christopher, 23, 83, 118, 198
- doppelgangers, 34, 37, 41, 42, 207n22
- Dorsey, James, 87
- earthquakes, 10, 24, 33, 83, 109
- Edison, Thomas, 99
- emotions, 42, 50, 56, 87, 165, 168, 194
- endemic species, 55, 57, 59–60, 62
- environmental degradation, 10–11, 48, 117, 187
- environmental history, 10, 204n17; Japanese, 204n13
- environmental humanities, ix–x, 2–3
- environmental texts, 11, 23, 93–94
- ero-guro-nansensu (erotic-grotesque-nonsensical), 47, 50
- eucalyptus trees, 178–79, 183
- evolution, 13, 15, 20; destruction of human ego and, 144–48; disturbance events and, 145; in early twentieth-century Japan, 49–50; hierarchical, 102; love and, 49–50; mutual aid and, 64–65; in Osaki’s work, 29–30, 32, 37–38, 42–47, 49–50, 52–54, 65, 102, 144–45, 169. See also social Darwinism
- Evolution (1925), 29–31, 37, 48, 206n1
- experimental narratives, 18, 21, 39, 63, 106
- Fabre, Jean-Henri, 64, 210n31
- Fedman, David, 204n13, 204n14
- fertilizer, 32, 39, 47–49
- Fire Festival (1985), 24, 118–27, 124, 131, 136, 137, 139, 144, 145, 216nn35–36
- Fleischer, Max, Evolution (1925), 29–31, 37, 48, 206n1
- Florenty, Elise, 106
- forest love ideology, 77, 90, 117
- forestry industry, 115–23, 126, 134. See also somabito (foresters)
- forests, 23–24, 28; assemblage, 88, 91–92, 108, 119–20, 128, 130, 137–39, 141–42; botanical subjectivity and, 56, 80–95, 127; conservation and reforestation, 67–68, 70, 73, 80, 82, 116–17, 134; destruction and renewal through fire, 119–23, 131–34, 136, 140–48 (see also disturbance ecology); destructive plasticity, 93; domestic lumber consumption, 115–18; multiplicity of, 91–92; spiritual relationship to, 118–23, 125–31; 3.11 disaster and, 83, 111. See also deforestation; trees
- forest time, 86, 139–41
- Foucault, Michel, 3, 203n6, 209n7
- fractured subjectivity, 31, 34–38, 84–87, 95
- Freud, Sigmund, 31
- Fujihara Tatsushi, 8–9, 18, 32, 48, 204n14
- Fujii Takashi, 94
- Fukasawa Maki, 197, 199–200
- Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, 3.11 disaster, 10, 12, 24, 83, 102, 106–11
- fungal networks, 4
- futurity, 19; abstract, 146, 146–47; cyclical time and, 135 (see also cyclical time); death and, 119; destruction of present and, 132–33, 144; evolutionary thought and, 43; reproductive, 200; revitalization and, 118; unified subjectivity and, 112
- Gagliano, Monica, 26, 203n6
- Galapagos Islands, 59
- Garvus, Delia, 205n40
- gender norms, 28, 44–45, 194, 197–200
- Giacometti, Alberto, 65–66
- Gotō Shin, 123
- grass, 16; “men are grass” syllogism, 12–17, 51, 191
- Green, Walon, 97
- Greening Week, 67, 67–68, 70, 73
- Grosz, Elizabeth, 14–15, 43, 145
- Guattari, Félix, 6, 19–21, 38, 157, 160, 162–63, 177, 185
- Haberlandt, Gottlieb, 66
- Hamano Sachi, 42, 43, 54
- Hamilton, Vivien, 205n40
- Hanada Kiyoteru, 33, 53–56, 66, 71, 76
- Hana no Iwa Shrine, 122
- Haniya Yutaka, 17, 28, 55–56, 63, 115–16; Dead Spirits, 23–24, 26, 56, 81–105, 107, 112–14, 120, 127, 207n24, 214n58; “Echo,” 113
- Hara Shōji, 14
- Haraway, Donna, 57, 110
- Harberd, Nicholas, 200–201
- Hashimoto Ken, 25–26, 83–84, 96–106, 101, 108, 205n40
- haunting, 17, 26, 80–83, 86, 88, 91, 93, 99, 105, 107, 111, 114
- Haven, Tom, 204n13
- Hayashi Fumiko, 33
- herbivore men, 197–99
- Hiroshima, 34, 110, 113
- Hiroshima, University of, 196
- Hofmeister, William, 45
- Honda Masaji, 76–78, 211n75
- Hongū Shrine, 123
- Houle, Karen L. F., 35, 154
- humanities, 2–3. See also environmental humanities
- human subjectivity, 1, 13–15, 19, 27; becoming botanical, 19–20 (see also botanical subjectivity); destruction and evolution of, 136, 142–48; fluid, 29–30; fractured, 31, 34–38, 84–87, 95; plasticity of, 22, 53, 105; postwar, 62, 70; revolutionary, 56, 64; singular/unified, 35–36, 41, 94–95, 112
- ice plant, 166–69, 167
- Imperial Japan: celebration of, 124–25; ideology of, 93–94, 104. See also colonialism; World War II
- Inamoto Tadashi, 126
- Inokashira Park, 80–82, 81, 96, 105, 111
- Inukai Tsuyoshi, 33
- Invasive Alien Species Act, 189, 221n111
- invasive plant species, 14, 149, 152–53, 166–74, 167, 179–81, 189, 189, 221n111
- involution, 38, 45
- Irigaray, Luce, 53
- Ishii Tomoyuki, 74
- Ishikawa Chiyomatsu, 30
- Ito, Hiromi, ix, 15–16, 27, 58, 86, 107, 154–55, 192, 203n2, 205n31, 218n17, 218n22; Aunt Green-Thumb, 163, 185; Coyote Song, 170; A Father’s Life, 157; Good Breasts, Bad Breasts, 154; House Plant, 174–84, 220nn65–66; “Killing Kanoko,” 154, 218n19; La Niña, 174–83, 220nn65–66; Sky of Plants, 154; The Thorn-Puller, 157; Three Lil’ Japanese, 181–85, 187, 198; Travels, 157, 188; Tree Spirits Grass Spirits, 16–17, 151, 157–65, 167, 170, 174, 179, 181, 183, 185–86, 219n49; Trump, 187; Twilight Child, 157; Wild Grass on the Riverbank, 149–57, 160, 163–67, 170–74, 179, 181, 183–88, 190, 217nn5–7, 219nn42–43, 219n49
- Itō Motomi, 59
- Itō Seikō, 8, 99, 106–16; Botanical Life, 107–8; Radio Imagination, 12, 24, 26, 83, 102, 106–14
- Izanagi and Izanami, 29, 122
- Izu Peninsula, 211n75
- Jacobs, Joela, 203n2, 217n5
- Jakushinsan camphor tree, 161–62, 192
- Japanese Communist Party (JCP), 28, 63, 70, 84, 85, 87
- Japanese Forestry Agency, 111, 115–16, 131
- Japanese studies, 6–9, 201; critical plant studies and, 7–12, 28; environmental scholarship, 10–11
- Jensen, Sara E., 132
- Jimmu (emperor), 124–25
- Jōmon era, 125–26
- kami (spirits or local gods), 90, 120, 122, 216n36
- Kawabata Yasunari, 31
- Kawasaki Kenko, 33, 49
- Kawase Naomi, ix, 17, 24, 107, 121, 134–36, 149, 215n15; Vision (2018), 24, 28, 118–20, 135–48, 138, 143, 151, 217n56
- Keetley, Dawn, 26–27, 150, 219n49
- kehai (presence or trace), 83, 89–90, 92, 96, 97, 100, 102, 107, 112, 113, 120
- Kenji, Miyazawa, 8
- Ketsumiko no Ōkami, 123
- Kii Peninsula, 120, 121–22, 124
- Kimmerer, Robin Wall, 5–8, 24, 26, 31, 34, 38, 46, 54, 203n6
- Ki no Tsurayuki, 16
- Kizukai Movement, 115–18, 120, 134
- Knight, John, 118, 126
- Koishikawa Botanical Gardens, 58, 79
- Kokinwakashū (poetry anthology), 16
- Korea, 73; Japanese colonialism in, 48–49, 59, 78
- Kropotkin, Peter, 64–68, 71, 75
- Kumamoto, 149, 154–58, 161–62, 164–65, 172, 188
- Kumano region, 122–23, 125, 127
- kyotai (empty body), 93–96, 100
- language: loss of, 53, 86–89, 93; scientific naming, 57–59, 61, 62, 72–73, 78–79, 151, 192; status of, in postwar era, 86–87; words as plants, 15–18, 58, 86, 150; writing as voice of dead spirits, 113
- Lee, Jung, 78, 204n14
- Lippit, Seiji, 31
- Literary Signpost (journal), 86–87
- The Lives of Animals and Plants, 75–78
- love, 193–201; evolution and, 49–50
- Machida Kō, 15
- Malabou, Catherine, 21–22, 40, 41, 93, 109, 112, 119, 206n45, 206n51
- Mancuso, Stefano, 8, 26, 68, 203n6
- Marder, Michael, 10, 40–41, 53, 71–72, 87, 163, 168–69, 203n6
- Marxism, 63–64. See also Anarcho-Marxists; Japanese Communist Party
- Mason, Herbert, 155–56
- Matsumura Jinzō, 79
- Matsuo Bashō, 16
- McLuhan, Marshall, 93
- McPherson, Guy R., 132
- Mechnikov, Ilya, 64
- Meeker, Natania, 7
- Meiji era, 30, 59
- mental illness, 31–36, 54, 61, 86–87, 89, 95
- metaphysics, 82, 88, 94, 98
- michiyuki (narrative device), 220n88
- migration, 27, 149–90, 218n23. See also anti-immigration policies; asylum seekers; naturalization
- Miura, Satoru, 111
- Miura Shion, A World Without Love, 28, 192–200
- Modern Literature (literary magazine), 85, 86
- Moerman, D. Max, 122–23
- Montgomery, Beronda, 22, 203n6
- Morioka Masahiro, 197–99
- Morris-Suzuki, Tessa, 46, 77, 204n14
- Morse, Edward, 30
- mosses, 5, 6–7, 23, 29–32, 34–35, 38–51, 54, 86, 191–92, 208n32; moss-like botanical subjectivity, 41–47; multiplicity of, 34–35, 35, 50; rebirth of, 54
- Murasaki Shikibu, 11
- Mure Yōko, 209n80
- Mutsuko Motoyama, 58
- mutual aid, 64
- mythological figures, 122, 125–26, 139–42
- Nakagami Kenji, 121–22, 125, 133, 144, 216nn35–36
- Nakai Takenoshin, 57, 78
- Nakajima Plant, 81
- Nakajima Seinosuke, 74
- Nara Prefecture, 135–36. See also Yoshino region
- nationalism, 28, 76–77, 98, 103, 121, 168, 182–83
- Native Americans, 169–70
- naturalization, 153, 158–59, 164, 166, 169–74, 177–81, 185, 188–90, 218n12
- nature: harmony with, 11; material face of (primary nature), 7, 16, 197; nonobjectification of, 40–42, 165; right relation between humans and, x; semiotic face of (second nature), 11, 16, 197. See also plant life
- Nealon, Jeffrey T., 3, 209n7
- neoliberalism, 116, 118, 134, 153
- Night Group, 55, 57, 63, 70, 76, 82
- Nihon shoki (mytho-history), 122
- 9/11 terrorist attacks, 155, 187, 190
- Nixon, Rob, 23
- Nozoe Nobuhisa, 42
- nuclear crises, 10, 109; at Fukushima (3.11), 10, 12, 24, 83, 102, 106–11
- Ogi Masahiro, 125–26, 140
- Ohnuki-Tierney, Emiko, 182, 204n14
- Oka Asajirō, 49–50, 52
- Okamoto Tarō, 55, 66
- Ōka Shōhei, 33
- Okinawa, 73, 198
- Osaki Midori, ix, 5, 6–7, 13, 20–23, 27, 29–56, 65, 71, 102, 127, 140, 144–45, 151, 161, 169, 183, 221n101; Jottings on Film, 29, 31, 41, 209n79; “Machiko Cycle,” 31, 51–53, 207n8; “Miss Cricket,” 36; “A Night in Anton’s Basement,” 51; “Osmanthus,” 54; Poems Dedicated to the Gods, 36; “Walking,” 51; Wandering in the Realm of the Seventh Sense, 23, 31, 33–34, 38–54, 43, 56, 57, 61, 68–69, 72, 85–87, 145, 150, 165, 191–94, 199, 208n32, 212n7
- Ōsugi Sakae, 210n31
- Ōta Yōko, 33
- parascience, 96–105, 108
- Parsley, Kathryn M., 204n9
- Pascal, Blaise, 36–37
- patriarchy, 32, 46, 47, 136, 194
- Perry, Matthew, 59
- Peters, John Durham, 91–92, 113, 215n99
- Pfeffer, Wilhelm Friedrich Philipp, 69
- phenotypic plasticity, 22, 169
- photosynthesis, 85, 94, 195
- phytomorphism, 13–14, 23, 27, 36, 42, 92, 113, 163, 164, 169, 191
- phytophenomenology, 66–70
- phytopoetics, 203n2, 217n5
- plant awareness disparity, 4–10, 204n9
- plant humanities, 3–5, 26, 28
- plant life, 2–9, 203n6; alterity of, 53, 147, 154, 155, 165; communication with, 96–106, 101, 195; compared to animal life, 74–78; death and rebirth (see disturbance ecology; rebirth and regeneration); decentralization in, 68; dibiontic life cycle, 45; green life force of, 107–8; historicity of, 5–6, 9; as horrific, 27, 61, 62, 68, 150, 182, 219n49; interior life, 61–62; metamorphosis, 42, 55–57, 60–79; nonviolence of, 85; senses, 66–68; sexual differentiation, 44–45; temporality of, 68–69, 192–93 (see also forest time); as untamable, 26–28. See also botanical empathy; botanical subjectivity; critical plant studies (CPS); forests; grass; invasive plant species; mosses; scientific research; shokubutsusei; trees
- “plant-thinking,” 10
- plasticity, 21–24, 27, 196, 205n45; botanical media and, 109; destructive, 93, 119–21, 123, 131–34, 148, 206n45; human ego and, 141, 145; migration and, 153, 174–81; phenotypic, 22, 169; plant metamorphosis, 42, 55–57, 60–79; repetition and, 40–41; of subjectivity, 22, 53, 105. See also transformation
- poetry: classical Japanese, x, 16–17; Osaki, 51–53; science as, 51–53; shokubutsusei of Ito’s poetry, 150
- Pollan, Michael, 25
- polygraph machines, 97, 99–102, 104, 106
- post-humanism, 56, 106
- post-traumatized subjects, 109
- postwar era: colonial memory in, 55–79; economic imperialism and resource extraction, 117–18, 126; economic miracle, 117–18, 124; greening efforts, 67–68, 70, 73, 80, 82, 116–17, 134; Japanese literature in, 23–24 (see also Haniya Yutaka); yakeato ruins, 70. See also colonialism, Japanese; World War II
- Powers, Richard, 4
- pseudoscience, 20, 25–26, 83–84, 96–97, 195, 205n40
- psychoanalysis, 31–32, 105
- racial ideologies, 30, 46
- radioactivity, 111
- rebirth and regeneration, 25, 53–54, 95, 107, 118, 132, 164–65, 185–86, 190. See also disturbance ecology
- religion, 90, 103–4. See also Buddhism; Shinto cosmology
- repetition, 39–42, 140, 150
- reproduction, 4, 50, 156, 163–66, 193–94, 219n49
- resistance, 6, 27–28, 99; to anthropocentrism, 93; to biopolitical control over migration, 153–54, 169–74, 181–90; to capitalism, 120; to colonialism, 30, 32–33, 46–49; to gender norms, 28, 44–45, 197–200; against patriarchy, 32, 47, 194
- resource extraction, 60, 115–18, 126
- revolutionary subjectivity, 56, 64
- rhizomatic logic, 19–20, 163, 192
- Rilke, Rainer Maria, 71–72
- rootlessness, 152–54, 163. See also uprootedness
- Roy, Sumana, 19–20
- rural communities: depopulation (kasoka), 12, 118, 123–27, 134–35, 137, 147; economic crisis and revitalization, 118, 120, 123–36, 147. See also somabito (foresters)
- Ryan, John Charles, 203n1
- Ryūkyū Islands, 73, 198
- Ryūtanji Yū, 32, 106
- Sandford, Stella, 44–45
- Sandilands, Catriona, 153, 155, 160, 171, 218n17
- Sartre, Jean-Paul, 65–66
- Satō Haruo, 32
- science, 7, 20; literature and, 30–54; objectivity and, 76; as poetry, 51–53; popular, 74; spirituality and, 23–26, 151
- scientific epistemology, 75
- scientific naming, 57–59, 61, 62, 72–73, 78–79, 151, 192
- scientific research, 201, 211n75; colonialism and, 47–49, 60, 76–77; on thale cress, 195–97, 196, 199, 200–201
- Sconce, Jeffrey, 99
- The Secret Life of Plants (Tompkins and Bird), 20, 25–26, 83–84, 97, 99–101, 105, 109, 194–95, 205n40
- secular migration, 155–56, 160, 162, 166, 169, 172, 174, 178, 185–90
- settler colonialism, 8, 21, 169. See also colonialism, Japanese
- Sharp, William/Fiona Macleod, 36–38
- shinboku (sacred trees), 90–91, 91, 103–6, 108
- Shinchōsha, 75
- Shinozuka, Jeannie N., 152–53, 168
- Shinto cosmology: divine wind (kamikaze), 98, 103; trees and forests, 90–91, 91, 103–5, 120
- Shirane, Haruo, 11, 16, 205n23
- shokubutsusei, 26–28, 65; concept of, 8–13, 16, 18–19; dibiontic life cycle, 45; disturbance ecology, 118–21; environmental texts and, 11; of forests, 83, 121, 139; of Ito’s poetry, 150; migration, 149; moss, 35; in Osaki, 32, 35, 37; rebirth, 25, 164; repetition and, 150; of trees, 110
- shokumin (“people planting”), 60
- Shōwa era, 20, 22, 30, 32, 33, 37, 46, 53, 80, 192, 211n75
- Shūgendō, 122
- Shyamalan, M. Night, 27
- silence, 53, 176, 209n79; loss of language, 53, 86–89, 93
- slow violence, 23
- Smith, F. Percy, 69
- social Darwinism, 30, 46, 50, 64–65, 169
- somabito (foresters), 118–19, 121, 123, 125–29, 134–42, 144–45, 147, 215n10
- spirit radio, 99–103, 106–11
- spirituality: forests and, 118–23, 125–31; nationalism and, 76–77; plants and, 83, 119–20; science and, 23–26, 151; trees and, 108–9
- state power and control, 201; colonial memory and, 62, 72–73; over migration, 150, 152–55, 166–71, 183–90; resistance to (see resistance); service to, 98–99. See also colonialism; Imperial Japan; nationalism
- subjectivity. See botanical subjectivity; human subjectivity
- Subramanian, Banu, 168
- suicide, 74, 95, 121, 127, 131–33, 136, 144
- Sullivan, Gregory, 50
- Susanoo, 125
- Suzaku (1997), 135–36
- syllogisms, 13–14, 191, 205n27
- Szabri, Antonia, 7
- Tachibana Takashi, 96–97
- Taiwan, 59, 84
- Takemitsu Tōru, 121, 129–30, 133
- Takemura Shinichi, 91–93, 105, 109–10
- Takizawa Kenji, 89–90
- The Tale of Genji (Murasaki), 11
- Tamura Masaki, 128, 135
- Tamura Taijirō, 94
- Taniguchi Masaharu, 98
- Tatsushi, Fujihara, 4
- thale cress, 195–97, 196, 199, 200–201
- 3.11 (earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown at Fukushima), 10, 12, 24, 83, 102, 106–11
- Timiryazev, Kliment, 6, 64–66, 73, 80, 94, 104, 201; The Life of the Plant, 57, 61–62, 74–75, 78
- Toba Kōji, 210n23
- Tōdaiji, 137, 217n47
- Toda Toyoko, 33
- Tokyo Imperial University, 30, 48, 57, 59, 78–79, 98, 193
- Tokyo Olympics (2020), 28, 121, 215n15
- Tompkins, Peter. See The Secret Life of Plants
- Totman, Conrad, 10–11, 117, 123, 137, 217n47
- transformation, 21–23, 42, 53–54; evolution and, 53; forests as site of, 90–93; violent, 119. See also plasticity
- trees: classification of, 159–60; multiplicity of, 105, 110; plasticity of, 105; in Shinto cosmology, 90–91, 91, 103–5, 120; shokubutsusei of, 110. See also cedar trees; cherry blossoms; eucalyptus trees; forests; Jakushinsan camphor tree
- Trump, Donald, 155, 187, 190
- Tsing, Anna, 119, 120, 127, 134, 137, 139
- tsunamis, 10, 24, 83, 109
- Tsuyama Takashi, 78
- Türkowsky, Marcel, 106
- violence, 6, 89, 182; botanical subjectivity and, 127, 131–33, 197–98; colonial, 48–49, 56–57, 65, 75; decrease in, 197–98; gendered, 49, 53; of humanity, 147; political, 33; postwar, 72–73, 82–85, 118; spiritual relationship to forest and, 118–19, 127–31; of twenty-first century, 150; of war, 98
- Vision (2018), 24, 28, 118–20, 135–48, 138, 143, 151, 217n56
- vitalism, 33, 74
- Yamamoto Reiji, 144
- Yamamura Bochō, 220n86
- Yama no Kami (mountain goddess), 122, 128–31, 131, 139
- Yanagimachi Mitsuo, 17, 24, 107, 121–22; Fire Festival (1985), 24, 118–27, 124, 131, 136, 137, 139, 144, 145, 216nn35–36
- Yokomitsu Riichi, 31–32
- Yoshino region, 120, 135, 136–37, 139–42, 145
- Yuki Masami, 11, 205n23