Climate - Fuudo

Japanese: 風土 - ふうど

[1] The climate, soil, topography, etc. of the land. The state of the land. ※Manyoshu (late 8th century) 17.3984. Left note: “The cuckoo bird will surely sing on the first day of summer. In the _Echigo region, _{there are few} oranges _and tangerines.” ※Hanayagi Shunwa (1878-79)〈translated by Oda Junichiro〉20 “The people are permeated by the land.” [Book of the Later Han - Biography of Wei Hao] [2] A philosophical book on culture. One volume. Written by Watsuji Tetsuro. Published in 1935. He divided the land climates of the world into three types: monsoon, desert, and pasture, and developed a unique cultural history theory that claims that the type of land climate determines the type of human thought and culture that is established on that land.

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Japanese:

[1] その土地の気候・地味・地勢など。その土地のありさま。※万葉（８Ｃ後）一七・三九八四・左注「霍公鳥者立夏之日来鳴必定、又越中風土希_レ有_二橙橘_一也」※花柳春話（1878‐79）〈織田純一郎訳〉二〇「人民其風土に染み」〔後漢書‐衛颯伝〕[2] 文化論の哲学書。一巻。和辻哲郎著。昭和一〇年（一九三五）刊。世界各地の風土をモンスーン・砂漠・牧場の三類型に分け、風土の型によってその風土の上に成立する人間の思想や文化の型が規定されると主張する独自な文化史論を展開した。

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