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Japanese Zen gardens / Yoko Kawaguchi ; photographs by Alex Ramsay.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kawaguchi, Yoko, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gardens, Japanese.
- Gardens, Japanese--Zen influences.
- Physical Description:
- 208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Frances Lincoln, [2017]
- Contents:
- Pt. 1. Japanese Zen temples and their gardens: an historical overview
- Nanzen-in
- The tradition of the landscape garden in Japan
- Saihō-ji
- Tenryū-ji
- Former villas of the Ashikaga Shōgun: Rokuon-ji and Jishō-ji
- The artist-monk Sesshū and the Jōei-ji garden
- The sub-temples of Kyōto and their gardens
- The south hōjō garden
- Ryōan-ji
- Kobori Enshū and Konchi-in
- Koborie Enshū and Kohō-an
- The tea garden at Jikō-in
- Some examples of early nineteenth century Zen temple gardens
- The twentieth century: Shigemori Mirei and Nakane Kinsaku
- pt. 2. Symbols and motifs in Japanese Zen gardens
- The pond and bridge
- The Ryūmon-baku: the Dragon Gate Waterfall and the carp-stone
- Shumisen
- The Sanzon-seki: three sacred stones
- The Kannon and Fudō stones
- Daoist imagery: the crane, the turtle and the Islands of the Immortals
- The dragon
- Tora-no-ko-watashi: tiger cubs crossing a river
- Seven-five-three gardens
- The sixteen Rakan
- The ox
- Zuhō-in and the image of the cross
- The borrowed landscape
- Zen temple gardens and the tea garden
- Plants
- Visiting temples
- Glossary of terms
- Index
- Further reading
- Acknowledgements.
- Notes:
- Originally published: 2014.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 207) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0711238715
- 9780711238718
- OCLC:
- 953885943
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