Japanese Stone Gardens /anglais: Origins, Meaning, Form - Hardcover

Mansfield, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 4805310561 ISBN 13: 9784805310564

Verlag: Tuttle Publishing, 1999

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"[A] great book for becoming acquainted with the topic of Japanese gardens"--"Landscape Architecture"

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"This survey of the best of Japan's stone gardens may send you into the sort of fugue state in which you wake up to find yourself floating through the airport, boarding pass in hand." -New York Times "A book that will benefit both the Japanese garden enthusiast and the Zen aficionado alike. One to be dipped into time and time again and absorbed over time." -Diverse Japan

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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 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.

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• Verlag: Tuttle Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 4805310561
• ISBN 13: 9784805310564
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160