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(★)(The classic expression of Japanese garden art is a design in which the art itself is so artless as to be totally unapparent. Whether it be a tea garden, the garden of a Buddhist temple or a Shinto shrine, the enclosed courtyard garden of an urban residence or the expansive stroll garden of a suburban villa, the garden of a modern Western-style hotel or of a traditional Japanese-style inn, or any of a number of other garden types, its ideal is to create a representation of nature in which human artifice is concealed. At the same time, the garden must suggest a world larger than the space that it actually encompasses : a world in which man can feel at home with nature even in the midst of a crowded city. This warm-hearted and straightforwardly written book traces the history of the Japanese garden from its beginnings more than two thousand years ago down to the modern age, pausing along the way for leisurely looks at such celebrated gardens as those of the Phoenix Hall, the Golden Pavilion, the Silver Pavilion, the Ryoan-ji, the Katsura and Shugaku-in imperial villas, the Sento Imperial Palace, Nijo Castle, and the Meiji Shrine, as well as numerous others perhaps less well known but no less attractive. Here are the gardens of emperors and ancient court noblemen, of Buddhist priests and prelates, of shoguns and feudal lords, of samurai, of tea masters, and of other figures from various levels of society --all described according to their distinguishing features and their colorful background. The text is illustrated with a lavish selection of 34 photographs in full color and 135 in black and white. The author, in being particularly attentive to the aesthetics of Japanese garden design, opens the way to a clear understanding of this much-admired but often misconstrued art. ◆Masao Hayakawa, graduate of the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Technology, Tokyo University, was born in Ibaraki Prefecture in 1925. At present he is a professional architect who also serves as an assistant professor at Meiji University in Tokyo and as a part-time lecturer at Tokyo University.) |
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