Understanding culture through language and literature Within its wide boundaries culture creates written and visual reflection areas for itself. As the reflection area expands through time space and nature it becomes richer and in doing so it needs to be appreciated. The cultural reflection of historical accumulation leaves us in front of an immense mirror. In general terms this book presents the reader with the intertwined relationships between culture and literature culture and language and culture and history or art history. More specifically it investigates the joy of a birth a funeral ritual the merriness of a melody and the taste of a meal as they are reflected within the texts that Asia has accumulated throughout its history. Its central concern is the investigatation of issues related to culture and how it is reflected in literature language or history in a particular place.