The Japanese Garden

The Japanese Garden
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Publisher : Phaidon Press Limited
Total Pages : 310
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ISBN-10 : UCSD:31822044003770
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Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis The Japanese Garden by : Sophie Walker

An in-depth exploration spanning 800 years of the art, essence, and enduring impact of the Japanese garden. The most comprehensive exploration of the art of the Japanese garden published to date, this book covers more than eight centuries of the history of this important genre. Author and garden designer Sophie Walker brings fresh insight to this subject, exploring the Japanese garden in detail through a series of essays and with 100 featured gardens, ranging from ancient Shinto shrines to imperial gardens and contemporary Zen designs. Leading artists, architects, and other cultural practitioners offer personal perspectives in newly commissioned essays.

Creating Your Own Japanese Garden

Creating Your Own Japanese Garden
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Publisher : Japan Publications Trading
Total Pages : 132
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ISBN-10 : 087040962X
ISBN-13 : 9780870409622
Rating : 4/5 (2X Downloads)

Synopsis Creating Your Own Japanese Garden by : Takashi Sawano

This book offers detailed step-by-step advice on how to design and construct Japanese gardens in various environments, using only materials widely available in the West.

Quiet Beauty

Quiet Beauty
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 4805318651
ISBN-13 : 9784805318652
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Quiet Beauty by : Kendall H Brown

*Gold Medal winner in the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for Home & Garden* "Just flipping through the pages of Quiet Beauty: The Japanese Gardens of North America will instantly lower your blood pressure." --The New York Times Book Review Japanese-style gardens have been a part of North American culture for over 150 years, delighting visitors with serene landscapes that instill tranquility. Quiet Beauty: The Japanese Gardens of North America provides an intimate look at the 25 most notable Japanese-style public gardens in the United States and Canada. Illustrated with more than 180 stunning color photographs, this book will be a welcome addition to the library of every garden enthusiast. This revised edition includes an amended list of 75 important gardens. It also describes major new additions at the featured gardens. Japanese gardens include: The Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco Nitobe Memorial Garden at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver The Japanese Garden in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden The Garden of the Pine Winds in the Denver Botanic Gardena The Japanese Garden in the Montreal Botanical Garden Tenshin'en (The Garden of the Heart of Heaven) in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens in Delray Beach, Florida The Japanese Friendship Garden of Phoenix in Margaret T. Hance Park The Garden of the Pine Wind, Garvan Woodland Garden in Hot Springs, Arkansas

Landscapes for Small Spaces

Landscapes for Small Spaces
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Publisher : Kodansha International
Total Pages : 140
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ISBN-10 : 4770028741
ISBN-13 : 9784770028747
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Landscapes for Small Spaces by : Katsuhiko Mizuno

This highly illustrated colour guide to the courtyard gardens of Japan comprises 100 colour photographs, each accompanied by an explanatory caption detailing the location and outstanding characteristics of each garden. An appendix offers practical information on re-creating the Japanese garden. Enjoy it for its sheer beauty or use it for inspiration while creating your own small landscape garden. Japanese gardening is the art of arranging plants, rocks, lanterns, and basins in an open or, as here, an enclosed space. According to the aesthetic principles long

Authentic Japanese Gardens

Authentic Japanese Gardens
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Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
Total Pages : 415
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ISBN-10 : 9781607651819
ISBN-13 : 1607651815
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis Authentic Japanese Gardens by : Yoko Kawaguchi

Discover how to recreate Japanese garden design and detail in either urban or country settings, with practical advice and stunning color photography.

Japanese Garden Design

Japanese Garden Design
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Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages : 762
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ISBN-10 : 9781462905966
ISBN-13 : 146290596X
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Japanese Garden Design by : Marc P. Keane

This book, filled with gorgeous photographs, explains the theory, history, and intricacies of Japanese gardening. The creation of a Japanese garden combines respect for nature with adherence to simple principles of aesthetics and structure. In Japanese Garden Design, landscape architect Marc Peter Keane presents the history and development of the classical metaphors that underlie all Japanese gardens. Keane describes the influences of Confucian, Shinto and Buddhist principles that have linked poetry and philosophy to the tangible metaphor of the garden in Japanese culture. Creative inspiration is found in the prehistoric origin of Japanese concepts of nature; the gardens of Heian aristocrats; the world-renowned Zen garden, or rock garden; the tea garden; courtyard garden; and stroll garden. Detailed explanations of basic design concepts identify and interpret the symbolism of various garden forms and demonstrate these principles in use today in Japanese landscape architecture. Topics include: Design Principles Design Techniques Design Elements Godspirit in Nature Poetry in Paradise The Art of Emptiness Spiritual Passage Private Niches A Collector's Park

Japanese Stone Gardens

Japanese Stone Gardens
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Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages : 160
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ISBN-10 : 9781462905980
ISBN-13 : 1462905986
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis Japanese Stone Gardens by : Stephen Mansfield

Gain some new ideas along with the principles and history of Japanese stone gardening with this useful and beautiful garden design book. Japanese Stone Gardens provides a comprehensive introduction to the powerful mystique and dynamism of the Japanese stone garden—from their earliest use as props in animistic rituals, to their appropriation by Zen monks and priests to create settings conducive to contemplation and finally to their contemporary uses and meaning. With insightful text and abundant imagery, this book reveals the hidden order of stone gardens and in the process heightens the enthusiast's appreciation of them. The Japanese stone garden is an art form recognized around the globe. These meditative gardens provide tranquil settings, where visitors can shed the burdens and stresses of modern existence, satisfy an age-old yearning for solitude and repose, and experience the restorative power of art and nature. For this reason, the value of the Japanese stone garden today is arguably even greater than when many of them were created. Fifteen gardens are featured in this book: some well known, such as the famous temple gardens of Kyoto, others less so, among them gardens spread through the south of Honshu Island and the southern islands of Shikoku and Kyushu and in faraway Okinawa.

Landscape Gardening in Japan

Landscape Gardening in Japan
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 260
Release :
ISBN-10 : UIUC:30112051869599
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Landscape Gardening in Japan by : Josiah Conder

Japanese Gardens for Today

Japanese Gardens for Today
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Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages : 308
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ISBN-10 : CORNELL:31924002016321
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis Japanese Gardens for Today by : David Harris Engel

Pictorial guide with suggestions for use in the United States.

Japanese Landscape Gardens

Japanese Landscape Gardens
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 122
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:$B271215
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Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Japanese Landscape Gardens by : Frederic De Garis