Chapter 2: Categorizing Japanese Gardens

A JAPANESE GARDEN HANDBOOK   PART ONE:  DESIGN & CRAFT In this Chapter… “Japanese” Gardens Categories and Schemas Making a List and Checking It Twice   “Japanese” Gardens Japanese gardens are in some ways victims of their own popularity. They have edged...

Chapter 3: The Heian Estate Garden

A JAPANESE GARDEN HANDBOOK   PART ONE:  DESIGN & CRAFT In this Chapter… An Austere Grandeur The Southern Courtyard The Boating Pond Dragon Boats and Rooster Tales Pavilions and Platforms   An Austere Grandeur During the Heian period (794-1185), nobles...

Chapter 4: The Paradise Garden

A JAPANESE GARDEN HANDBOOK   PART ONE:  DESIGN & CRAFT In this Chapter… Paradise at Hand The Easy Way This Place Is the Lotus Land The End of the World “It was Magnus who first told me the story of the Garden of Eden. I had great difficulty imagining it,” he...
Chapter  6: The Contemplation Garden

Chapter 6: The Contemplation Garden

A JAPANESE GARDEN HANDBOOK   PART ONE:  DESIGN & CRAFT In this Chapter… Gardens for the Mind The Painter’s Eye   Gardens for the Mind   Just as the Japanese tea ceremony and the ikebana flower arrangement make frugality a virtue, creating with the...

Preface

A JAPANESE GARDEN HANDBOOK Andrew R. Deane PREFACE Japanese landscape-gardening is one of the fine arts. Ever since the middle of the fifteenth century, generations of artists have been busy perfecting it, elaborating and refining over and over again the principles...