Japanese Stone Gardens - How to Make and Enjoy Them

by FUKUDA, Kazuhiko

First Edition

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Book Description

Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1970. Publishers original exquisite textured brown cloth that has blind diamond embossing and red embossed Japanese characters to front cover and red and white lettering to spine. Handmade textured endpapers. Dustwrapper: clipped, minor chipping to corners and rubbing to extremities, otherwise very good and now protected in Brodart. 312pp including index. 4 plates with tissue guards, plus numerous black and white photographs, illustrations and garden plans. Minor faint spotting to half title page. There is nothing in the world that equals the serene beauty and contemplative stillness of the Japanese garden. And of all the garden styles the stone garden, or karesansui, best characterizes these qualities: the stones, plantings and sand are symbols in a silent drama performed on a stage of natural beauty. In this volume famous gardens from the temples, teahouses and residences of Japan are presented in over 300 beautiful photographs and 100 figure drawings. Each garden is discussed in terms of its historical, religious, and aesthetic background, and the reader is helped to train his eye in order to experience and comprehend the tranquil beauty of stone gardening. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

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