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OverviewLooking at Japanese gardens will quickly reveal that they cannot be viewed as isolated from other art forms or social processes. Concepts of various origins converge in them, all aimed at creating a balance in their arrangement of the elements of the mental and physical world. The Japanese garden thus appears neither void and contemplative nor purely aesthetic, but a social compendium that contains stories about an order that lies at the very foundation of a society--it is a total work of art and applied philosophy. The Viennese art historian and cultural scientist Carola Platzek takes an eleventh-century Japanese gardening manual as a starting point for her exploration of the history of Japanese gardens. The essence of the Sakuteiki still holds true today: only the precise observation of nature will warrant a garden design that is in harmony with its environment. Platzek spoke with gardeners, garden historians, a sound researcher as well as Buddhist and Shinto priests about their work with traditional and modern concepts that shape Japanese design. The book introduces readers to systems such as the Sakuteiki, the Tea Way, the Eight Views genre, and waka poetry, presenting them in a way that makes their interconnections accessible. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Carola PlatzekPublisher: Schlebrugge.Editor Imprint: Schlebrugge.Editor ISBN: 9783903172272ISBN 10: 3903172278 Pages: 92 Publication Date: 25 October 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationAkasaka Makoto is a landscape historian and Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Horticulture at Chiba University and Vice President of ICOMOS Japan. In 1991 he received the Grand Prize of the Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture. Numerous talks and publications. Amasaki Hiromasa studied at Kyoto University and subsequently completed his training in landscape design. He supervised the garden design of the Kyoto State Guest House and the preservation and restoration of the Japanese gardens of various cultural sites. He has a doctorate in agricultural sciences and is the honorary director of the Research Center for Japanese Garden Art and Historical Heritage Kyoto. He received, among others, the Grand Prize of the Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture (1992) and the Kyoto Prefecture Cultural Contribution Award (2007) and was named a Kyoto Person of Cultural Merit in 2014. Fujisato Myokyu is a Buddhist high priest and acting abbot of the Motsu-ji in Hiraizumi. Kaji Kenji is the eighteenth Guji (Shinto high priest) of the Ichigaya-Kamegaoka-Hachiman-gu in Tokyo. Kato Tomoki is President of Ueyakato Landscape Co., Ltd. and visiting professor at the Kyoto University of Art and Design (Kyoto Zokei Geijutsu Daigaku). Ueyakato is one of Kyoto's largest horticulture companies and in charge of the maintenance of national cultural heritages like the Nanzen-ji and the Higashi Hongan-ji. Kato Tomoki gives talks and lectures about garden design both in Japan and abroad. Mitani Yasuhiko is a landscape architect and gardener teaching at the University of Tokyo. After an apprenticeship under a master of traditional Japanese garden art, he worked as a landscape architect in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco from 1981 to 1997. In 2009, he founded Mitani Landscape Studio. He received numerous prizes, including the American Society of Landscape Architects Merit Award (2004), the Grand Prize of the Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture (2006), and the Award of Excellence of the International Federation of Landscape Architects, Asia Pacific Region (2010). Nishiyama Masatoshi is a landscape and garden designer based in Tokyo. Since 1984, he has been devoting his time to the design of parks and gardens, the revitalization of historic city districts, and the development of residential and public areas. A member of the Administrative Commission of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, he has been involved in the strategic planning to preserve forests and green areas in urban environments. Noda Eiichi studied history and Japanese literature at the Daito Bunka University in Tokyo. He is the director of Trolls in the Park, a contemporary art festival taking place annually at Zenpuku-ji park in the Suginami district of Tokyo, since 2002. Oguni Syuichi is a gardener. After a ten-year training under a master of traditional Japanese garden art, he founded his own horticultural enterprise in Tokyo. Carola Platzek studied history and philosophy in Leipzig, Grenoble, and Vienna. She is an author, art scholar, and cultural researcher. Recently, she worked as a key researcher of the PEEK program of the Austrian Science Fund and at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Torigoe Keiko is a musicologist and sound landscape researcher. She is a professor at the University of the Sacred Heart (Seishin Joshi Daigaku) and Professor of Comprehensive Cultural Policy at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo. Additionally, she conducts research at the Laboratory for Regional Design with Ecology at Hosei University in Tokyo. She realized projects in the fields of environmental design and education, among them the garden of the Rentaroh-taki Memorial House and the 100 Soundscapes of Japan. Yagasaki Zentaro is an architecture and garden historian. He graduated in engineering and holds a doctorate in philosophy. He has worked at the Kyoto Institute of Technology (Kyoto Kogei Sen'i Daigaku) since 1985 and has bee Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |