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"This warm-hearted and straightforwardly written book traces the history of the Japanese garden from its beginnings more than two thousand years ago down to the modern age, pausing along the way for leisurely looks at such celebrated gardens as those of the Phoenix Hall, the Golden Pavilion, the Silver Pavilion, the Ryoan-ji, the Katsura and Shugaku-in imperial villas, the Sento Imperial Palace, Nijo Castle, and the Meiji Shrine, as well as numerous...
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This book is a delightful journey through the gardens of Japan, their art, culture, and history. This beautifully designed book is a guide to gardens in Japan and a revelation of their historical and cultural contexts. Offering a tour of over 120 gardens spanning east, west, north, and south in Japan, the authors provide a brief description, beautiful photographs, and directions for easy reference, interwoven with notes on personal experiences and...
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Kyoto Gardens is a labor of love from master photographer Ben Simmons and Kyoto-based writer Judith Clancy. Simmons' photographs present a fresh and contemporary look at Kyoto's most important gardens. Their beauty is enhanced and humanized by gardeners tending the grounds using the tools of their art. Clancy's graceful text provides historic, aesthetic and cultural context to the gardens. Combining wonder and rigor, she describes how Kyoto's most...
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Classic study of gardening techniques and artistic principles involved. Includes analysis of five main garden types, plus important components: stones, lanterns, pagodas, ornamental water. Over 50 sketches, layouts, and diagrams, plus 37 full-page plates, many based on early woodcuts. Also, 40 annotated full-page photographic plates of famous examples of Japanese landscaping. -- Book Description.
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"This book is, first and foremost, a practical, down-to-earth explanation of how the basic rules of Japanese garden design and care may be applied in other countries to achieve the same, miracle-like effects that have made Japanese gardens preeminent in the field of landscape art."
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This book presents 75 examples of courtyard gardens in Kyoto. It traces the history of the courtyard garden from its origin in Kyoto's Imperial Palace through its tranformations first in the seventh century under the revolutionary influence and later in the nineteenth century from the influx of Western landscaping concepts.
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First published in 1893, this is a revised edition of the first substantial appreciation of Japanese gardens by a Wester author. The text has been reset and incorporates Josiah Conder's "Supplement to Japanese Gardens", which features photographs and commentary on 33 famous Japanese gardens.
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Mirei Shigemori decisively shaped the development of Japanese landscape architecture in the twentieth century. He founded the Kyoto Garden Society in 1932 and published the 26-volume Illustrated Book on the History of the Japanese Garden in 1938. One year later he designed his own first masterwork, the garden of the main hall of T??fuku-ji Temple. Between then and his death in 1975, he went on to design 240 gardens throughout Japan. Among the most...
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