A JAPANESE GARDEN HANDBOOK PART ONE: DESIGN & CRAFT Chapter 1: Setting Aside A Space In this Chapter… Surrounded by Nature Taming Nature On Speaking Terms Upstaged! We cannot say that people are really living if they are not also living with nature, that is, living...
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...
A JAPANESE GARDEN HANDBOOK PART THREE: ANCILLARY ELEMENTS Chapter 36: Looking Beyond: Borrowed Scenery In this Chapter… Borrowing a Backdrop Incredible Shrinking Scenery Let Us Now Praise Famous Places Jetavana’s Bells Gardens of Repute Mythic Mountains Rising from...
A JAPANESE GARDEN HANDBOOK PART THREE: ANCILLARY ELEMENTS Chapter 35: Defining the Garden: Boundaries and Gates In this Chapter… Fencing Practice Bamboo Tying the Knot Board Brushwood and Bark Living Fences Mud, Stone and Tile Their Entrances and Their Exits Stoned at...
A JAPANESE GARDEN HANDBOOK PART THREE: ANCILLARY ELEMENTS Chapter 34: Placing Man: The Architectural Interface In this Chapter… Essential Principles Raising the Roof Walls, Windows and Screens Guest Rooms On the Mat Transitional Zones Draining the Rain Garden Delights...
