garden book review
Review: Add a Touch of Japanese Style to Your Garden
by Nigel Spaven Add a Touch of Japanese Style to Your Garden – 30 Simple IdeasMs Yin & Mr Yang’s Garden Design Book Index A new, self-published book about how to turn a garden Japanese. Or merely give it a Japanese touch. Different then other books of the same genre, it is not promising you […]
Zen Gardens: The Complete Works of Shunmyo Masuno
Zen Gardens: The Complete Works of Shunmyo Masuno First published on 1977 (English) By Mira Locher / Tuttle Hardcover ISBN-10: 4805311940 ISBN-13: 978-4805311943 224 Pages $ 27.64 Shunmyo Masuno, Japan’s leading garden designer, is at once Japan’s most highly acclaimed landscape architect and an 18th-generation Zen Buddhist priest, presiding over daily ceremonies at the Kenkoji […]
[Book review] The Garden’s rope work / 目で見る庭のロープワーク
目で見る庭のロープワーク / The Garden’s rope work First published 1980. Reviewed edition first published May 30 2008. By Junzou Ishida / 龍居庭園研究所 Paperback ISBN-10: 4-87460-985-6 ISBN-13: 978-4-87460-985-9 222 Pages ¥ 1300 +tax I couldn’t find any additional information about the author. Introduction by the author (translated and summarized by the reviewer): During the creation of this book the author […]
[Book review] A study on history, use and management on Japanese Gardens in Europe
A study on history, use and management on Japanese Gardens in Europe From gardens created after the World War II in Italy, Germany, Holland, Belgium and France First published on September 01, 2018 By Koichi Kobayashi / CreateSpace / Amazon KDP Paperback ISBN-10: 1-726-34189-5 ISBN-13: 978-1-726-34189-9 38 Pages $ 10 Koichi Kobayashi is a Japanese-American […]
[Book review] Cutting back by Leslie Buck
Cutting back: My Apprenticeship in the Gardens of KyotoLeslie Buck First published 2018By Timber PressReviewed edition: kindle ebookISBN 10: 1-604-69793-8ISBN 13: 978-1-604-69793-3 The intention of the book is described as followed: […] I started thinking about how I’d accomplished all of my dreams, even the biggest one—apprenticing with a Japanese garden company. So I […]
[Book review] Die Lehre des Gartens by Carola Platzek
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 in how gardens become an […]
[Book review] Tokyo Roji by Heide Imai
Tokyo Roji The Diversity and Versatility of Alleys in a City in Transition Heide Imai First published 2018 By Routledge First issued in hardback 2018 Reviewed edition: Hardback ISBN: 978-1-138-94910-2 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-66928-1 (ebk) The intention of the book is described as followed: This book is about the role and meaning of the roji in […]
[Book review] Japanese Gardens Symbolism and Design by Goto and Naka
Japanese Gardens Symbolism and Design Seiko Goto and Takahiro Naka First published 2016 by Routledge First issued in hardback 2017 Reviewed edition: Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-82118-6 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-138-42866-9 (hbk) The intention of the book is described on page one as followed: The unique beauty of the Japanese garden stems from its spirituality and rich […]
[Book review] Japanese Gardens: Learning the Origins of Beauty from Hakone Museum of Art and Katsura Imperial Villa
I found this book by chance when I searched for something completely different. It was written by a Tokyo based landscaper family and one of their employees, a German landscape architect. This is also the reason why I bought the book in the end; I am not the only German gardener in Tokyo. Although maybe […]