The Japanese garden / Sophie Walker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Sophie (Garden designer), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardens, Japanese.

Gardens--Japan.

Gardens.

Japan.

Gardens, Japanese--Zen influences.

Japanese tea gardens.

Physical Description:

303 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Phaidon Press, 2017.

Summary:

An in-depth exploration spanning 800 years of the art, essence, and enduring impact of the Japanese garden. The most comprehensive exploration of the art of the Japanese garden published to date, this book covers more than eight centuries of the history of this important genre. Author and garden designer Sophie Walker brings fresh insight to this subject, exploring the Japanese garden in detail through a series of essays and with 100 featured gardens, ranging from ancient Shinto shrines to imperial gardens and contemporary Zen designs. Leading artists, architects, and other cultural practitioners offer personal perspectives in newly commissioned essays.

Contents:

Introduction : The nature of the garden

Beauty, terror and power

The way, body and mind

The gardens of Kyoto / Lee Ufan

Expanded understanding

Duality and reflection

Even the moon borrows its light from the sun / Tan Twan Eng

Mitate : a leap of imagination / Tatsuo Miyajima

The hidden, implied and imagined

The geometry of nature / Marcus du Sautoy

Zen challenge : the unenterable garden

Time, space and the dry garden

Limitless space / John Pawson

Void, silence and transition / Anish Kapoor

Death, tea and the garden

Inner space : the courtyard garden

The poetry of plants

Architecture of the garden / Tadao Andō

Plants of Japan

Periods of Japanese history

Map of Japan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 297) and index.

ISBN:

9780714874777

0714874779

OCLC:

987281876