by Martin McKellar | Apr 18, 2016 | Design & Construction, Health & Healing, Japanese Garden Theory & Design, Maintaining the Garden
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 illness,...
by Martin McKellar and Andrew R. Deane | Aug 9, 2015 | Design & Construction, Japanese Garden Theory & Design, Maintaining the Garden, Uncategorized
“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...
by Edzard Teubert | Feb 23, 2015 | Design & Construction, Japanese Garden Theory & Design, Reference
Can a Japanese garden be designed for the needs of a culture and changing times, and still respect the original tenets of Japanese garden design? Japanese Garden designer, Edzard Teubert examines this possibility through exploration of Japanese history and philosophy....
by Chris Hall | Jan 13, 2015 | Design & Construction, Japanese Garden Theory & Design, Reference
This short essay by traditional Japanese carpenter, Chris Hall, is intended to give an overview of the relationships between house and garden in traditional Japanese residential architecture. (If you have Japanese enabled on your browser, you will see most terms with...
by Andrew R. Deane and Martin McKellar | Nov 11, 2014 | Design & Construction, Japanese tools, Maintaining the Garden
If you have Japanese enabled on your browser, mouse over Japanese terms to see their kanji and definitions. The entire list is available here. Andrew R. Deane became interested in Japanese gardens while teaching English in Japan in the 1990’s. He maintains a...
by Elliot Mitchnick | Apr 15, 2012 | Design & Construction, Japanese Garden Theory & Design, Stone basins, Tea Garden, Way of Tea
Elliot Mitchnick discusses the design and construction of the Tsukubai, the traditional place of ritual cleansing in the inner Japanese Tea garden. If you have Japanese enabled on your browser, you will see most terms with their kanji. In addition, most terms have...
