Japanese Stone Gardens: Origins, Meaning & Form
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (761 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 4805314273 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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"An Important Read" according to martin ruzicka. If you landscape with stones no matter what size or shape the fundamentals explained in this book will cause you never to look at a rock the same way again. Brilliant and informative reading.. "Great book was a little History thrown in" according to Jeffrey E. Combs. This book if full of beautiful photographs of Japanese Gardens. The Japanese stone garden explores and explaines the meaning, the forms, and the origins of the Japanese stone garden. As one reads this book, it seems that in the back of your mind, you are forming your own garden. A great read and study.. Marshal Wied said I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Japanese gardens. Japanese Stone Gardens is an outstanding book. While I was in Kyoto I visited many stone gardens. This book allowed me to appreciated my experience in Kyoto much more. As I read through the book I would look up each garden mentioned on my iPad. This enhanced the reading experience. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Japanese gardens.
He was the author of some forty books of fiction and nonfiction, dozens of speeches and essays, and hundreds of book, film, and arts reviews. Donald Richie (1924–2013), novelist, essayist, journalist, and film scholar, was born in Lima, Ohio, in 1924 but has spent most of the last sixty years witnessing and reporting on the transformation of Japan from postwar devastation to economic powerhouse. He is the author of several books, including Japan: Isl
Gain some new ideas along with the principles and history of Japanese stone gardening with this useful and beautiful garden design book.Japanese Stone Gardens provides a comprehensive introduction to the powerful mystique and dynamism of the Japanese stone garden—from their earliest use as props in animistic rituals, to their appropriation by Zen monks and priests to create settings conducive to contemplation and finally to their contemporary uses and meaning. With insightful text and abundant imagery, this book reveals the hidden order of stone gardens and in the process heightens the enthusiast's appreciation of them.The Japanese stone garden is an art form recognized around the globe. Fifteen gardens are featured in this book: some well known, such as the famous temple gardens of Kyoto, others less so, among them gardens spread through the south of Honshu Island and the southern islands of Shikoku and Kyushu and in faraway Okinawa.. These meditative gardens provide tranquil settings, where visitors can shed the burdens and stresses of modern existence, satisfy an age-old yearning for solitude and repose, and experience the restorative power of art and nature. For this reason, the value of the Japanese stone garden today is arguably even greater than when many of them were created
Considered “seats of the gods,” stones were placed in “purified” clearings that became the prototypes for Japan’s elegant dry-landscape gardens with their astonishing raked sand patterns. An in-depth tour of 15 masterpiece stone gardens ancient and contemporary throughout Japan further deepens our appreciation for these landscapes of aesthetic precision and meditative repose in a book as lovely and restorative as its subject. British-born, Japan-residing Mansfield, a versatile writer and photographer and Japanese garden expert, presents an illuminating history of this living art form in sharply focused text and image. He traces the influences of Shintoism, Taoism, and, most significantly, Zen Buddhism, and artfully delineates the aesthetics of stone,