Traditional rural landscapes in island topography in East Asia / editors, Bixia Chen and Yuei Nakama.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chen, Bixia.

Nakama, Yūei.

Series:

Environmental Research Advances

Environmental research advances

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape design--Japan.

Landscape design.

Landscape design--East Asia.

Forest landscape management--Japan.

Forest landscape management.

Forest landscape management--East Asia.

Feng shui.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The authors introduce the reader to traditional island villages built based on Feng Shui concepts around 300 years ago. The traditional village landscape embodies the harmony between man and nature with a scene of "people living in the forest". As well as a scenic landscape, Ryukyu Feng Shui landscape also provides with regulating ecosystem services to prevent from natural disasters. This study includes extensive field survey results on more than forty outlying islands in the southernmost part of Japan. This study includes the actual structure of traditional villages and vegetation composition of forests in the villages. It further explores the distribution of huge trees in traditional villages. This book provides understanding in regard to an integrated landscape with ecological significance, local religion and cultural context for landscape designers and urban planners.

Contents:

Intro

TRADITIONAL RURAL LANDSCAPES IN ISLAND TOPOGRAPHY IN EAST ASIA

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

CONTENTS

LIST OF FIGURES

LIST OF TABLES

PREFACE

Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION

1.1. BACKGROUND

1.2. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF RESEARCH ON FENG SHUI

1.2.1. Definition of Feng Shui

1.2.2. Significance

1.3. PURPOSES

1.4. A BRIEF INTRODUCTION OF OKINAWA PREFECTURE

1.5. METHODOLOGY

1.6. STRUCTURE OF THE RESEARCH

REFERENCES

Chapter 2 RECENT FENG SHUI RESEARCH

ABSTRACT

2.1. ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND FOLKLORE STUDIES ON FENG SHUI

2.2. ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ON FENG SHUI

2.3. ARCHITECTURAL STUDIES ON FENG SHUI

2.4. FENG SHUI STUDIES IN OKINAWA

Chapter 3 FENG SHUI IN OKINAWA- A LITERATURE REVIEW

3.1. INTRODUCTION OF FENG SHUI TO OKINAWA

3.2. KEY CONCEPT OF FENG SHUI IN KINGDOM OF THE RYUKYUS: HO:GO

3.3. FENG SHUI PRACTICE IN OKINAWA

CONCLUSION

Chapter 4 FENG SHUI VILLAGE LANDSCAPE AND FENG SHUI TREES

4.1. FENG SHUI VILLAGE LANDSCAPE

4.1.1. The Consideration of Surrounding Physical Environment

Dragon Vein

Sha

Water

Cave

4.1.2. Ideal Feng Shui Model

4.2. FENG SHUI TREES

4.2.1. Feng Shui Trees in Mainland China

4.2.2. Feng Shui Trees in Hong Kong

4.2.3. Feng Shui Trees in Korea

4.2.4. Feng Shui Trees in Okinawa

Chapter 5 A RYUKYU ISLAND FENG SHUI VILLAGE LANDSCAPE

5.1. INTRODUCTION

5.1.1. Introduction and Development of Feng Shui in Ryukyu Kingdom

5.1.2. Village Feng Shui

5.1.3. Study Purpose

5.2. SURVEY SITE AND METHODS

5.2.1. Case Study Area 5.2.

5.2.2. Data Collection

5.3. THE FENG SHUI LAYOUT IN TARAMA ISLAND

5.4. FEATURES OF TREES IN THE FRONT FOREST BELT

5.5. FOREST COMPOSITION ON THE BACK HILL.

5.6. A RYUKYU ISLAND FENG SHUI VILLAGE FEATURING FOREST PLANTING

5.7. The Naturally Regenerated Ho:GO FOREST OF RICH BIODIVERSITY AND THE FOREST IN THE REAR HILLS

Chapter 6 A SACRED VILLAGE LANDSCAPE IN MAINLAND OKINAWA

6.1. INTRODUCTION

6.2. SURVEY SITE AND METHOD

6.3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

6.3.1. Facing the Sea and Backed by the Mountains

6.3.2. Feng Shui Sites

6.3.3. Highlighting Tree Planting

6.3.4. Feng Shui Hamlets Were Planned at First in the Center

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Chapter 7 ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF FENG SHUI VILLAGES FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF OLD FUKUGI TREES INSIDE THE VILLAGE

7.1. INTRODUCTION

7.1.1. A Traditional Feng Shui Village Landscape in Okinawa

7.1.2. House-Embracing Fukugi Trees in Okinawa

7.2. METHOD AND SURVEY SITES

7.3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

7.3.1. Distribution of Large Fukugi Trees

7.3.2. Huge Trees and the Hamlet Landscape Layout

Chapter 8 LANDSCAPE ELEMENTS OF FENG SHUI VILLAGES-GREEN TREES AND MEANDERING ROADS

8.1. INTRODUCTION

8.2. METHOD AND SURVEY SITES

8.3. RESULTS

8.3.1. Landscape Elements and Geophysical Attributes

8.3.1.1. Forested Mountain and Village Houses

8.3.1.2. Roads

8.3.1.3. Sacred Sites and Spring Waters

8.3.2. Trees in Landscaping

8.3.3. Dimensions of Village Ho:Go

8.4. DISCUSSION

8.4.1. A Cultural Landscape Applied to Local Climate

8.4.2. Winding Roads

8.4.3. Continuous Forest Belts-Green Corridors

8.4.4. The Start of Fukugi Tree Landscape in Far Isolated Island

Chapter 9 HOUSE-EMBRACING FUKUGI TREES ON SMALL ISOLATED ISLAND

9.1. INTRODUCTION

9.2. METHODS AND SURVEY SITE.

9.3. GENERAL LAYOUT OF HOUSE-EMBRACING TREES

9.4. GENERAL LAYOUT OF RESIDENCES

9.5. FEATURES OF HOUSE- EMBRACING TREES

9.6. REGENERATION OF HOUSE-EMBRACING TREES

Chapter 10 HOUSE-EMBRACING FUKUGI TREES IN A COASTAL VILLAGE

10.1. INTRODUCTION

10.2. THE GENERAL LAYOUT

10.3. ANALYSIS BY TYPE

10.4. DENSITY AND REGENERATION

10.5. ESTIMATED AGE OF TREES

Chapter 11 HOUSE-EMBRACING FUKUGI TREES IN A VILLAGE ON THE MEDIUM-SIZED ISLAND-A CASE STUDY OF AGUNI ISLAND

11.1. INTRODUCTION

11.1.1. Feng Shui and National Policy

11.1.2. Ryukyu Island Feng Shui Village Landscape

11.1.3. House-Embracing Fukugi Trees

11.2. SURVEY SITE

11.3. Methods

11.4. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

11.4.1. Layout of House-Embracing Fukugi Trees

11.4.2. Density and Regeneration

11.4.3. Management

Chapter 12 DISTRIBUTION OF FUKUGI TREES IN OKINAWA GUNTŌ

12.1. INTRODUCTION

12.2. METHODOLOGY

12.2.1. Survey Sites D

12.2.2. Method

12.3. RESULTS

12.3.1. The Present Distribution of Huge Fukugi Trees in Okinawa Guntō

12.3.2. Fukugi Trees. Goban Pattern Village

12.3.3. Fukugi Trees in Sacred Sites

12.3.4. Fukugi Trees in Magiri Bansho (The Old Public Offices)

12.3.5. The Distribution of Fukugi Trees in a Village

12.4.1. Distribution of Big Remnant Fukugi Trees and Features of a Ryukyu Green Feng Shui Village

12.4.2. The Process of an Orderly Laid-out Hamlet in the Modern Ryukyuan Period

12.4.3. The Future of Fukugi Trees

Chapter 13 DISTRIBUTION OF BIG FUKUGI TREES IN RYUKYU ISLANDS IN JAPAN

13.1. INTRODUCTION

13.2. METHODOLOGY AND SURVEY SITES

13.3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION.

13.3.1. Distribution of Fukugi Trees in Sakishima Islands

13.3.2. Distribution of Fukugi Trees in Amami Islands

13.3.3. Other Residence Woodlands in Amami Islands

13.3.4. Planted Forest Belt

13.3.5. Concerning Fukugi Trees

Chapter 14 CONCLUSION

14.1. FEATURES OF ISLAND FENG SHUI VILLAGE LANDSCAPES-MULTILAYER FOREST BELTS AND MEANDERING VILLAGE ROADS

14.2. FENG SHUI FORESTS IN THE REAR HILL AND THE FRONT HO:GO

14.3. THE PRACTICAL USE OF TREE PLANTING IN AN ISLAND FENG SHUI VILLAGE

14.4. PREVALENT FUKUGI (GARCINIA SUBELLIPTICA MERR.) TREES

14.5. LAYOUT OF HOUSE-EMBRACING FUKUGI TREES

14.6. FEATURES OF HOUSE-EMBRACING FUKUGI TREES

14.7. WHEN WERE TRADITIONAL VILLAGES BUILT?

14.8. DISTRIBUTION OF BIG REMNANT FUKUGI TREES IN OKINAWA ISLANDS

14.9. DISTRIBUTION OF BIG REMNANT FUKUGI TREES IN RYUKYU ISLANDS

14.10. ISSUES AND CHALLENGES IN THE FUTURE

POSTSCRIPT

INDEX.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-61470-654-9

OCLC:

852158278