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Kyoto gardens : masterworks of the Japanese gardener's art / text by Judith Clancy ; photography by Ben Simmons.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clancy, Judith, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gardens, Japanese--Japan--Kyoto.
- Gardens, Japanese.
- Japan--Kyoto.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- North Clarendon, Vermont : Tuttle Publishing, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Kyoto Gardens is a labor of love from master photographer Ben Simmons and Kyoto-based writer Judith Clancy. Simmons' photographs present a fresh and contemporary look at Kyoto's most important gardens. Their beauty is enhanced and humanized by gardeners tending the grounds using the tools of their art. Clancy's graceful text provides historic, aesthetic and cultural context to the gardens. Combining wonder and rigor, she describes how Kyoto's most beloved gardens remain faithful to their founders' creative spirit and conception. Journey to Kyoto's thirty gardens with just a turn of a page, or
- Contents:
- Cover; CONTENTS; Introduction Reshaping the Land; CHAPTER 1 Gardens of Central and Eastern Kyoto; Kyoto's Old Imperial Palace Garden; Nijo Castle Garden; Heian Jingu Shrine Garden; Kennin-ji Temple Garden; Nanzen-ji Temple Garden; Shinnyo-do Hermitage Garden; Anraku-ji Temple Garden; Honen-in Temple Garden; Ginkaku-ji Pure Land Garden; CHAPTER 2 Gardens of Northern Kyoto; Konpuku-ji Poet's Garden; Shisen-do Villa Garden; Shugaku-in Imperial Villa Garden; Sanzen-in Temple Garden; Hosen-in Temple Garden; Kamigamo Shrine Garden; Daitoku-ji Temple Garden; Jisso-in Imperial Garden
- CHAPTER 3 Gardens of Western KyotoKinkaku-ji Estate Garden; Ryoan-ji Zen Garden; Toji-in Temple Garden; Daikaku-ji Temple Garden; Tenryu-ji Zen Garden; Myoshin-ji Zen Garden; Hokongo-in Villa Garden; CHAPTER 4 Gardens of Southern Kyoto; Saiho-ji Moss Garden; Katsura Imperial Villa Garden; Jonangu Shrine Garden; Mimuroto-ji Paradise Garden; Daigo-ji Temple Garden; Tofuku-ji Zen Garden; Gardens Glossary; Time Periods; Bibliogaphy; Acknowledgments; Copyright
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 6, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 1-4629-1503-5
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