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Japanese Stone Gardens: Origins, Meaning & Form

Japanese Stone Gardens: Origins, Meaning & Form

Richie, Donald
Mansfield, Stephen

Hardcover

General PhotographyJapanese GardensLandscape Architecture

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ISBN10: 4805314273
ISBN13: 9784805314272
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: Aug 15 2017
Pages: 160
Weight: 1.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 8.10 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
This survey of the best of Japan's stone gardens may send you into the sort of fugue state in which you wake up to find yourself floating through the airport, boarding pass in hand. --New York Times

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. 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.

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.

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