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Uniform Title Lehre des Gartens. English
Title Teachings of the garden : conversations in Japan / edited by Carola Platzek ; translated from German into English by Sophie Gertrude Strohmeier
Edition First English-language edition
Published Vienna, Austria : Schlebrügge.Editor, 2020
Chicago : Art Stock Books/IPG

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Description 91 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
Contents Preface / Carola Platzek -- Oguni Syuichi, gardener, Tōkyō -- Kaji Kenji, Shintō high priest, Tōkyō -- Amasaki Hiromasa, garden historian and gardener, Kyōto -- Fujisato Myōkyū, Buddhist high priest and abbot, Hiraizumi -- Yagasaki Zentarō, architectural historian, Kyōto -- Katō Tomoki, gardener, Kyōto -- Torigoe Keiko, musicologist, Tōkyō -- Noda Eiichi, historian, Tōkyō -- Nishiyama Masatoshi, landscaper and garden designer, Tōkyō -- Mitani Yasuhiko, landscape architect and gardener, Tōkyo -- Akasaka Makoto, landscape researcher, Tōkyō
Summary "An eleventh-century Japanese gardening manual was the origin of Carola Platzek's studies which explore the history of Japanese gardens. The essence of the Sakuteiki prevails today: the precise observation of nature in order to design a garden according to its surroundings. The Viennese cultural researcher and art historian converses with gardeners, garden historians, academics and researchers, as well as Buddhist and Shintō priests; to illuminate how they work with traditional and modern concepts which inform garden arrangement and design in Japan. The book introduces the reader to these fascinating concepts and their interconnections, which include: orientational principles such as the theories of harmony and spatial consciousness; the five elements and the four cardinal points; aesthetic paradigms as formulated in the Way of Tea, or in the genre of the Eight Views; and waka and haiku poetry"-- Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Landscape architecture -- Japan
Gardens, Japanese
Landscape architecture -- Japan -- Interviews
Gardeners -- Japan -- Interviews
Genre/Form Interviews.
Author Platzek, Carola, editor
Strohmeier, Sophie Gertrude, translator
ISBN 3903172278
9783903172272