The theme I was reading during summer vacation was about landscape theory.
The reason why I decided to research this theme is that people have different ways of perceiving landscapes, and I was curious about how they perceive landscapes.
In my image, a landscape is a wide range of views that can be seen in a certain place.
After some research, I came across a very interesting discovery that I would like to share with all of you.
I learned that the way we perceive landscapes is very different between the Far East and the West, where we live.
First, I think there are few Japanese people who want to be in untouched nature and the wild.
Westerners, however, think that it is normal to feel what they call nature, a place with undeveloped wilderness and water.
The characteristic of Western landscape gardens is their "naturalness."
The nature that can be seen there is "artificial nature" that has been devised to look natural, not "raw" nature that has been left unattended.
To give an artificial naturalness, the landscape gardeners did not refer to "raw" but to landscape paintings as artificial.
"Trying to put on make-up to give the impression that you are not wearing make-up" must be distinguished from "not wearing make-up."
In contrast, it is quite common to call gardens and parks in Japan nature.
If it's filled with trees, flowers, water, etc., I think it's a natural landscape.
I think that both natures created by untouched technology and "well-organized nature" are included in the category of nature.
However, can I call parks, gardens, landscape gardens, artificial beaches, and hot spring baths “nature”? I have a question.
For modern people, nature is a place of vacation, and the landscape has become an object of affection and protection.
I think the environmental movement is part of that phenomenon. However, if you look at the scale of long history, this is a relatively new phenomenon, and I think the value changes with each era.
In other words, it is an example of a change in the composition of humans and landscapes, the relationships between humans, and the sensibilities of humans. Landscapes are not only visually evaluated, but also evaluated by the five senses and by the whole body.
I want to address the dominant sense in psychology.
Sense dominance is like a “brain habit” that tells us which senses we tend to use more.
The habits differ from person to person, so depending on what the person's sense of superiority is, the way they feel and input the same event will differ from person to person.
Human beings receive information through the five senses (sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste), but the information obtained from which senses the head and mind react more easily differs from person to person.
Visually dominant types are particularly good at recognizing information through their eyes and understanding things through pictures, diagrams, and flow charts.
Hearing dominant types are good at capturing things by sound and are sensitive to changes in the voice of the other person. Tactile (physical) dominant types are characterized by being able to easily perceive what they have experienced with their bodies and what they have touched with their hands.
I thought that by knowing which of these three types I am closest to, I would not only have a different way of perceiving the landscape, but I would also be able to apply it to my daily life.
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