Sakuteiki

Author : Jiro Takei
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462900127
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sakuteiki written by Jiro Takei and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the art of Japanese gardening with this classic, fascinating text. The Sakuteiki, or "Records of Garden Making," was written nearly one thousand years ago. It is the oldest existing text on Japanese gardening—or any kind of gardening—in the world. In this edition of the Sakuteiki the authors provide an English-language translation of this classic work and an introduction to the cultural and historical context that led to the development of Japanese gardening. Central to this explanation is an understanding of the sacred importance of stones in Japanese culture and Japanese garden design. Written by a Japanese court noble during the Heian period (794-1184), the Sakuteiki includes both technical advice on gardening—much of which is still followed in today's Japanese gardens—and an examination of the four central threads of allegorical meaning, which were integral features of Heian-era garden design. For those seeking inspiration to build a rock garden or just better understand the Japanese stone garden, the Sakuteiki is an enduring classic.

Author : Marc P. Keane
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146290596X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Garden Design written by Marc P. Keane and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with gorgeous photographs, this book 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

Author : Takashi Sawano
Publisher : Japan Publications Trading
ISBN 13 : 9780870409622
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating Your Own Japanese Garden written by Takashi Sawano and published by Japan Publications Trading. This book was released on 1999 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Mira Locher
Publisher : Tuttle Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1462910491
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zen Gardens written by Mira Locher and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shunmyo Masuno, Japan's leading garden designer, is at once Japan's most highly acclaimed landscape architect and an 18th-generation Zen Buddhist priest, presiding over daily ceremonies at the Kenkoji Temple in Yokohama. He is celebrated for his unique ability to blend strikingly contemporary elements with the traditional design vernacular. He has worked in ultramodern urban hotels and in some of Japan's most famous classic gardens. In each project, his work as a designer of landscape architecture is inseparable from his Buddhist practice. Each becomes a Zen garden, "a special spiritual place where the mind dwells." This beautiful book, illustrated with more than 400 drawings and color photographs, is the first complete retrospective of Masuno's work to be published in English. It presents 37 major gardens around the world in a wide variety of types and settings: traditional and contemporary, urban and rural, public spaces and private residences, and including temple, office, hotel and campus venues. Masuno achieved fame for his work in Japan, but he is becoming increasingly known internationally, and in 2011 completed his first commission in the United States which is shown here. Zen Gardens, divided into three chapters, covers: "Traditional Zen Gardens," "Contemporary Zen Gardens" and "Zen Gardens outside Japan." Illustrated with photographs and architectural plans or sketches, each Zen garden design is described and analyzed by author Mira Locher, herself an architect and a scholar well versed in Japanese culture. Celebrating the accomplishments of a major, world-class designer, Zen Gardens also serves as something of a master class in Japanese garden design and appreciation: how to perceive a Japanese garden, how to understand one, even how to make one yourself. Like one of Masuno's gardens, the book can be a place for contemplation and mindful repose.

Author : Jake Hobson
Publisher : Timber Press (OR)
ISBN 13 : 0881928356
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Niwaki written by Jake Hobson and published by Timber Press (OR). This book was released on 2007 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the years, Japanese gardeners have fine-tuned a distinctive set of pruning techniques that coax out the essential characters of their garden trees, or niwaki. In this highly practical book, Western gardeners are encouraged to draw upon the techniques and sculpt their own garden trees to unique effect. After first discussing the principles that underpin the techniques, the author offers in-depth guidelines for shaping pines, azaleas, conifers, broadleaved evergreens, bamboos and deciduous trees. Throughout the text, step-by-step illustrations accompany the instructions, while abundant photographs and anecdotes bring the ideas surrounding niwaki vividly to life.

Author : Alison Main
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393730913
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lure Of The Japanese Garden written by Alison Main and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002-06-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 travel in different seasons. A glossary of terms and a chronological summary of the gardens in different historical periods are included. A perfect reference for visitors to Japan as well as armchair travelers, this book is the first to show such a wide geographical spread of gardens throughout Japan, and will be beloved by all garden lovers and anyone captivated by this unique element of Japanese culture. 120 color photographs and illustrations. - Publisher.

Author : Jiro Takei
Publisher : PeriplusEdition
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sakuteiki Visions of the Japanese Garden written by Jiro Takei and published by PeriplusEdition. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takei (emeritus, Kyoto College of Art) and Keane (landscape architecture, Kyoto U. of Art and Design) collaborated to produce a very pleasing and well-illustrated book on Japanese garden design with a translation of its great gardening classic. The Sakuteiki, written in the 11th century, contains descriptions and principles of the various elements of the Japanese gardens, such as stones, ponds, islands, waterfalls, and bamboo. In their introductory essay, the authors describe these features and provide as well the historical and social context for Japanese garden design, discussing the importance of geomancy, Buddhism, and the complex system of taboos that governed aristocratic life in Heian Japan. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Carol Gluck
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691232679
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japan's Modern Myths written by Carol Gluck and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideology played a momentous role in modern Japanese history. Not only did the elite of imperial Japan (1890-1945) work hard to influence the people to "yield as the grasses before the wind," but historians of modern Japan later identified these efforts as one of the underlying pathologies of World War II. Available for the first time in paperback, this study examines how this ideology evolved. Carol Gluck argues that the process of formulating and communicating new national values was less consistent than is usually supposed. By immersing the reader in the talk and thought of the late Meiji period, Professor Gluck recreates the diversity of ideological discourse experienced by Japanese of the time. The result is a new interpretation of the views of politics and the nation in imperial Japan.

Author : Marc Peter Keane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781611720150
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Japanese Tea Garden written by Marc Peter Keane and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impeccably written, erudite . . . likely to remain the standard work on the subject.--Kyoto Journal

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sakuteiki written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: