A01=Jiro Harada
Alcove Ornaments
Author_Jiro Harada
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Big Rocks
Blossoms
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Detached Palace
dry rock arrangements
Edo period horticulture
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Evergreens
famous
Furuta Oribe
Garden Lake
Gateways
guardian
Guardian Stone
Held
hills
historical garden styles
Honour Stone
Isle
Japanese landscape design
lanterns
Lespedeza Bicolor
level
Meiji Restoration gardens
Rain Drops
Ravine
rock
Sciadopitys Verticillata
Shogun Yoshimasa
stone
Stone Facing
Stone Lanterns
Stone Water Basin
traditional Japanese garden analysis
Vice Versa
water
Water Fall
Waterfall
Willow Trees
Worshipping Stone
Zen aesthetics
Product details
- ISBN 9780710307491
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 210 x 280mm
- Publication Date: 21 Mar 2005
- Publisher: Kegan Paul
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
