Chapter 19: Sand, Gravel & Cobbles
In this Chapter… Spreading Sand Gravel Cobbles Bibliographical Notes Spreading Sand Ripples of shikisuna, Gyokudo Art Museum, Tokyo.[/caption] Shikisuna (敷き砂...
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Shands Hospital – Arts in Medicine
Full screen is available by clicking the icon in the lower right corner. Beyond These Walls: Expanding the Patient Experience Cleaning a Zen garden is a soothing activity. The calming and meditative practice might be appropriate for a patient dealing with an...
Chapter 5: The Dry Landscape Garden
A JAPANESE GARDEN HANDBOOK PART ONE: DESIGN & CRAFTIn this Chapter… An Extraordinary Vision Origins and the Zen of Sterility Going Mental Less Is More The Most Difficult Part Cubs and a Querulous River At a Rakish Angle Water, Water...
Chapter 2: Categorizing Japanese Gardens
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 into the domain of national stereotype, and imitations and...
Chapter 3: The Heian Estate Garden
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 perfected a style of estate architecture known as...
Chapter 4: The Paradise Garden
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 remarked. “A garden where nothing dies or decays, where...
Chapter 6: The Contemplation Garden
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 simplest of means a world of stillness and beauty, so...
Pushing The Line – A Theoretical Approach to Raking a Karesansui Garden
“Daitokuji” is copyright by Datigz, 2005 and made available under an Attribution-Non-Commercial Share Alike Licence 2.0 Imagine that someone has wiped clean the pattern in the gravel at Ryoanji and handed you the rake with the instructions, "Make whatever pattern...
