In the Japanese Garden

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"In reading In the Japanese Garden the words of the text are like reading a Japanese scroll; narrow columns of blank verse emotions. I responded warmly to its historically and culturally sensitive story telling as if I had always been able to translate the characters. The marvelous, almost multi-dimensional color photographs transported me back to my own memorable visits to Japan. I accepted (again) how labor-intensive it is for the gardens to appear as if they never change, age, or cope
with seasons. One should never disclose endings, but the book will provide you with all of the concepts to put Japanese gardening 'in your hands,' literally and figuratively."
— dr. h. marc cathey Director
U.S. National Arboretum Washington, D.C.
MOST WESTERNERS DO NOT ASSOCIATE THE word "garden" with three moss-covered stones set in a bare courtyard, white sand raked into a swirling whirlpool, or snow weighing down the branches of a gnarled pine.
Yet within the context of a lapanese garden,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

"In reading In the Japanese Garden the words of the text are like reading a Japanese scroll; narrow columns of blank verse emotions. I responded warmly to its historically and culturally sensitive story telling as if I had always been able to translate the characters. The marvelous, almost multi-dimensional color photographs transported me back to my own memorable visits to Japan. I accepted (again) how labor-intensive it is for the gardens to appear as if they never change, age, or cope
with seasons. One should never disclose endings, but the book will provide you with all of the concepts to put Japanese gardening 'in your hands,' literally and figuratively."
— dr. h. marc cathey Director
U.S. National Arboretum Washington, D.C.
MOST WESTERNERS DO NOT ASSOCIATE THE word "garden" with three moss-covered stones set in a bare courtyard, white sand raked into a swirling whirlpool, or snow weighing down the branches of a gnarled pine.
Yet within the context of a lapanese garden, each of these elements contributes to an extraordinary loveliness appreciated and imitated all over the world. In the Japanese Garden celebrates the beauty of this 1300-year-old art form and illuminates its philosophic origins to provide Westerners with the understanding they need to successfully include aspects of the Japanese garden in their own landscape plans.
In the Japanese Garden was created by the husband-and-wife team of photographer Michael S. Yamashita and writer Elizabeth Bibb. They spent more than a year , J under the tutelage of master garden designer Shiro
Nakane, photographing and studying the places that best embody the Japanese gardener's art. Here are the luxuriously lush mosses at Saiho-ji, the starkly abstract stones at Ryoan-ji, the strangely soothing checkerboard sand at Tofuku-ji, and more.
Many of Yamashlta's images were created with a special panoramic-format camera; still others focus on the minute details the Japanese gardener wants you to discover—a tiny snail making its way along a bamboo downspout, a bonsai tree etching a delicate shadow on a white stucco wall, the wood grain in a tea house door lending a sense of motion to an otherwise static scene.
The photographs serve as ideal illustrations to Bibb's text, which traces the history of the Japanese garden from the early Japanese who first roped off sacred clearings in forest groves to the modern office-bound gardeners who manage to create small oases of serenity within the busiest urban settings. In her chapters on the Japanese garden's major design elements—stone, sand and gravel, water, flora, and space—Bibb explains the role each plays in creating gardens which truly transcend seasonal changes.
In the Japanese Garden introduces Western readers to a gardening aesthetic characterized by abiding spirituality and unwavering discipline, where nothing may be left to chance, but everything must look completely natural. In doing so, it lends rare insight into the unique contribution of the Japanese garden to the art of landscape design. Vissza