Requested by one of our readers was an article about maintenance works throughout the year. I thought it would be nice to make a monthly series out of this. This is part 11, in which I talk about the works in November. You can find the other parts here: 1, 2, 3,...Continue Reading
Being involved in a time-consuming publishing process on Amazon, I am very happy I finally found the time to write a new eBook for Real Japanese Gardens. In July, I wrote two articles about the Adachi Museum of Art for two web magazines, so I chose our new eBook to...Continue Reading
Requested by one of our readers was an article about maintenance works throughout the year. I thought it would be nice to make a monthly series out of this. This is part 10, in which I talk about the works in October. You can find the other parts here: 1, 2, 3,...Continue Reading
Requested by one of our readers was an article about maintenance works throughout the year. I thought it would be nice to make a monthly series out of this. This is part 9, in which I talk about the works in September. You can find the other parts here: 1, 2, 3,...Continue Reading
Requested by one of our readers was an article about maintenance works throughout the year. I thought it would be nice to make a monthly series out of this. This is part 8, in which I talk about the works in August. You can find the other parts here: 1, 2, 3,...Continue Reading
Requested by one of our readers was an article about maintenance works throughout the year. I thought it would be nice to make a monthly series out of this. This is part 7, in which I talk about the works in July. You can find the other parts here: 1, 2, 3,...Continue Reading
Die Lehre des Gartens – Gespräche in Japan Carola Platzek First published in 2017 By Schlebrügge.Editor Paperback ISBN: 978-3-903172-18-0 Carola Platzek visited Japan several times to Research the Sakuteiki, Japans oldest gardening manual. As art- and cultural researcher with a university degree in history and philosophy, she is most interested...Continue Reading
Pines in Japanese gardens are pruned twice a year. In my company in Germany, where we hadn’t so much time, we only did all the tasks together once in early summer, which is possible too, but not desirable. Here in Japan, my first company did both, Midoritsumi in early summer, and...Continue Reading
Requested by one of our readers was an article about maintenance works throughout the year. I thought it would be nice to make a monthly series out of this. Here is part 6, in which I talk about the works in June. You can find the other parts here: 1, 2, 3,...Continue Reading
Japanese people tend to state that foreigners can’t understand the concept of wabi-sabi. But is this really true? Or is it one of these myths Japanese like so much hearing and spreading about their country and culture like that one about other countries don’t have four distinctive seasons? When I...Continue Reading
