Four Seasons In Five Senses By David Masumoto Summary
Masumoto’s Four Seasons in Five Senses: A New Approach to the Nature Genre The idea of nature and the idea of man’s interaction with nature has been a prevalent thought throughout American literature. Often one thinks of a writer discussing their adventures in nature when provided with a nature genre book or they think of a nature guidebook. In Four Seasons in Five Senses, by David Mas Masumoto, however, Masumoto writes the nature genre through a discussion of his peach farm. Rather than detailing his wanderings in nature, Masumoto describes his interaction with nature by telling anecdotes about his experiences as well as expressing his feelings on the change that farming has gone through during his time as a farmer. Therefore, in order to