ABSTRACT
ASENSE OF PLACE IS a source of one’s feeling of “belonging” to a location orcommunity, and, as a result, a dimension of intercultural relations. Any analysis of sense of place can help us understand core values in cultures other than our native culture. How is a sense of place generated? A sense of place is developed through the interrelation of several elements: poetry and literature, art, religion, social life, and views of nature. A sense of place, though, is not imposed as much by religious or political institutions (an ideological formation of place) as it is formed through a person or group’s profound experience of place. A sense of place involves specific physical ties to a location as well as understandings of nature that are part of worldviews. This chapter considers how art expresses sense of place, with specific examples and comparative analysis drawn from Eastern and Western landscape traditions.
