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The Gardens of Japan
Author(s): Jiro Harada (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: February 28, 2016
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 188 pages
- ISBN-10: 1138974897
- ISBN-13: 9781138974890
Book Description
First published in 2005. In Japan, the garden is considered a barometer of the nation’s prosperity and character, and different periods in history have produced different kinds of gardens. Harada gives brief summaries of them all, including the Edo period (1603-1867), when professional gardeners first took over the design of gardens from priests, and reveals a few of the subtle distinctions that the Japanese use to distinguish between different kinds of gardens that appear identical to Western eyes. As a reaction to all things foreign, the gardens of the Meiji Restoration period (1868-1912), on which the book concentrates, revived the earlier simpler cha-no-yu style of garden heavily influenced by Zen. A special feature of the book is rare period photographs of famous parks and the now vanished gardens of Japanese aristocrats.
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Jiro Harada
