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New eBook! Japanese Garden History Part 2 – From Kamakura to Azuchi-Momoyama
I hoped for some blog posts between the new eBook announcements, however, work kept me busy and I was not able to finish the two posts I already started.. That’s why, again, you can read about Real Japanese Gardens new eBook. But I think that’s not so bad either! Because I have a lot of […]
Behind the image of the karesansui garden
The Kamakura and Muromachi eras hold the answer to my third question of dry landscape gardens – is there more to their compositions than the restraint and unnaturalness that they project? Zen Buddhism and the Hidden Nature of Rocks The effect upon these karesansui (“withered mountain-water”) gardens from the practice of meditation from Zen Buddhism […]