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 Mark Bourne | Jan 13, 2015 | Japanese Garden Theory & Design, Reference
Doubt – Learning to see the Japanese garden Mark Bourne looks back on his experience as an apprentice to a Master Gardener in Kyoto, and shares a rare glimpse into the challenges of that world. Adapted by permission from the article in the January 2011 PACIFIC...
by Andrew R. Deane | Nov 11, 2014 | Japanese Garden Theory & Design
Andrew R. Deane is a teacher and gardener in Tokyo and author of ‘Japanese Gardens Online Handbook.’ In this editorial, he shares his ideas on the appreciation of a Japanese garden as more than a work of art. Ninomaru, Nijō-jō, Kyōto “Gardening in...
