Japanese Gardens Kyoto

Author : Marc Treib
Publisher : Oro Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781940743677
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Guide to the Gardens of Kyoto written by Marc Treib and published by Oro Editions. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for the layman as well as the professional, this concise yet comprehensive guide provides both practical information and theoretical insights into the design of the Japanese garden. Kyoto, the capital of Japan for over one thousand years, possesses a richness of garden art without equal as a living chronicle of Japanese cultural history and environmental design. Following the introductory essays are individual entries for more than 50 temple and palace gardens. The text is augmented by an excellent selection of photographs, historical prints, maps, and color plates.

Author : Judith Clancy
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462915035
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kyoto Gardens written by Judith Clancy and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bring the art and beauty of Japan to your garden with inspiration from Kyoto Gardens." —HGTV Gardens Featuring beautiful Japanese garden photography and insightful writing, Kyoto Gardens is a labor of love from master photographer Ben Simmons and Kyoto-based writer Judith Clancy. In their rocks and plants, empty spaces and intimate details—Kyoto's gardens manifest a unique ability to provoke thought and delight in equal measure. These varied landscapes meld the sensuality of nature with the disciplines of cosmology, poetry and meditation. Japanese aristocrats created these gardens to display not just wealth and power, but cultural sensitivity and an appreciation for transcendent beauty. A class of professional gardeners eventually emerged, transforming Japanese landscape design into a formalized art. Today, Kyoto's gardens display an enormous range of forms—from rock gardens display of extreme minimalism and subtle hues, to stroll gardens of luscious proportions and vibrant colors. In Kyoto Gardens 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 Japanese gardens. Combining wonder and rigor, she describes how Kyoto's most beloved gardens remain faithful to their founders' creative spirit and conception. Journey to Kyoto's thirty gardens with just a turn of a page, or use the handy maps to plan your trip.

Author : John Dougill
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462919588
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zen Gardens and Temples of Kyoto written by John Dougill and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ING_08 Review quote

Author : Sophie Walker
Publisher : Phaidon Press Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Japanese Garden written by Sophie Walker and published by Phaidon Press Limited. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Stephen Mansfield
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462905986
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Stone Gardens written by Stephen Mansfield and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Lonely Planet
Publisher : Lonely Planet
ISBN 13 : 1787019306
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lonely Planet Kyoto written by Lonely Planet and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lonely Planet's Kyoto is your most up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Walk through vermillion gates towards the summit of Fushimi Inari-Taisha; glimpse 'old Japan' in the lanes of Gion; and time your trip for the best cherry blossom and crimson maple leaves -all with your trusted travel companion.

Author : Teiji Itoh
Publisher : Kodansha USA Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9784770023216
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gardens of Japan written by Teiji Itoh and published by Kodansha USA Incorporated. This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textually informative and a treat for the eyes, THE GARDENS OF JAPAN begins with the origins and history of the garden in Japan, discusses the different types that evolved over time, and brings the story up to date. Gardens featured include some of the most famous in the country. 78 color and 150 b&w photos; 30 plans and drawings.

Author : Jiro Harada
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136185666
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gardens of Japan written by Jiro Harada and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2005. In Japan, the garden is considered a barometer of the nation's prosperity and character, and different periods in history have produced different kinds of gardens. Harada gives brief summaries of them all, including the Edo period (1603-1867), when professional gardeners first took over the design of gardens from priests, and reveals a few of the subtle distinctions that the Japanese use to distinguish between different kinds of gardens that appear identical to Western eyes. As a reaction to all things foreign, the gardens of the Meiji Restoration period (1868-1912), on which the book concentrates, revived the earlier simpler cha-no-yu style of garden heavily influenced by Zen. A special feature of the book is rare period photographs of famous parks and the now vanished gardens of Japanese aristocrats.

Author : Seiko Goto
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317411633
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Gardens written by Seiko Goto and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unique beauty of the Japanese garden stems from its spirituality and rich symbolism, yet most discussions on this kind of garden rarely provide more than a superficial overview. This book takes a thorough look at the process of designing a Japanese garden, placing it in a historical and philosophical context. Goto and Naka, both academic experts in Japanese garden history and design, explore: The themes and usage of the Japanese garden Common garden types such as tea and Zen gardens Key maintenance techniques and issues. Featuring beautiful, full-colour images and a glossary of essential Japanese terms, this book will dramatically transform your understanding of the Japanese garden as a cultural treasure.

Author : Thomas Daniell
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462905900
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Houses and Gardens of Kyoto written by Thomas Daniell and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all the damage that has occurred over the centuries, for all the relentless and destructive modernization still taking place today, Kyoto, imperial capital for more than a millennium, remains a rich, inexhaustible archive of Japanese cultural history. Houses and Gardens of Kyoto introduces a broad array of Kyoto's traditional houses from every period of the city's history. They range from summer villas to townhouses, from monumental Buddhist temples to insubstantial garden pavilions, from personal homes to traditional inns. All have their associated outdoor spaces, whether condensed courtyard gardens, picturesque stroll gardens, "dry landscape" stone gardens, or the "borrowed scenery" of distant landscapes. Both exquisite photo album and fascinating historical study, Houses and Gardens of Kyoto is sure to be the standard reference work on this topic for many decades to come.