"Torrent de montagne rugissant (Naruko, Japon)" by Macha Spoehrle, University of Geneva
Entry in category 1. Object of study; Copyright CC-BY-NC-ND: Macha Spoehrle
Torrent at the bottom of Naruko Gorge, Miyagi Prefecture, northeast Japan. This is a scene that could illustrate the wanderings of a 20th century Japanese ethnologist and poet, Orikuchi Shinobu (1887-1953).
Orikuchi had an original scientific method. For him, observation was worthless unless it was accompanied by personal feeling. The image that was true to reality had to be the sum of observation, reflection and intuition. The image is therefore not a description of the experience, but an interpretation of it. This 'scientific' method is inseparable from his poetic writing. A travel poem by Orikuchi closes with this: "Faint glow of the torrent roaring between the mountains. I hear a voice calling me". The text does not give any information about the identity of this voice, while suggesting that it could be an illusion, caused by the torrent's ardour... An image that this cliché proposes to illustrate.
"Torrent de montagne rugissant (Naruko, Japon)" by Macha Spoehrle, University of Geneva
Entry in category 1. Object of study; Copyright CC-BY-NC-ND: Macha Spoehrle
Torrent at the bottom of Naruko Gorge, Miyagi Prefecture, northeast Japan. This is a scene that could illustrate the wanderings of a 20th century Japanese ethnologist and poet, Orikuchi Shinobu (1887-1953).
Orikuchi had an original scientific method. For him, observation was worthless unless it was accompanied by personal feeling. The image that was true to reality had to be the sum of observation, reflection and intuition. The image is therefore not a description of the experience, but an interpretation of it. This 'scientific' method is inseparable from his poetic writing. A travel poem by Orikuchi closes with this: "Faint glow of the torrent roaring between the mountains. I hear a voice calling me". The text does not give any information about the identity of this voice, while suggesting that it could be an illusion, caused by the torrent's ardour... An image that this cliché proposes to illustrate.