The garden as architecture : : form and spirit in the gardens of Japan, China, and Korea / Toshirō Inaji ; translated and adapted by Pamela Virgilio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Inaji, Toshirō, 1924-

Contributor:

Virgilio, Pamela.

Standardized Title:

Teien to jūkyo no "ariyō" to "misekata, miekata". English

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Architecture--East Asia.

Architecture.

Gardens--East Asia.

Gardens.

Architecture--East Asia--Designs and plans.

East Asia.

Genre:

Architectural drawings.

Physical Description:

xi, 204 pages : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Tokyo ; New York : Kodansha International, [publisher not identified], 1998.

Contents:

[Sect. 1] Japan

1. Early prototypes and interpretive approaches

2. Shinden-Zukuri as prototype, and two divergent interpretations

3. Kinetic, multifaceted gardens and Miegakure

[sect. 2] China

4. Coexisting "unworldly" and "mundane" worlds

5. Spatial composition of the unworldly

6. Ideology and prototypes

[sect. 3] Korea

7. Traditional Korean residences and their gardens

8. The "uncultivated" garden.

Notes:

Originally published: Tōkyō : Sankaidō, 1990.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-198) and index.

ISBN:

477001712X

OCLC:

40308885