Japanese Gardens – Taschen (KTE0005)

Japanese Gardens

Introduction

The Japanese sense of beauty:

The veneration of the unique in nature and the perfection of the man-made type

Japanese garden archetypes:

The Japanese landscape • Shintoism • Hindu cosmology – Taoist myth – Buddhist faith – Triadic compositions

The Japanese garden in history:

From prototype to type and stereotype

Scared islands and ponds: Gardens of joy

Gardens in Ancient Japan

The Heian period

Sino-Japanese geomancy as holistic design theory

Gardens in an urban palace setting

Pavilion gardens on the city outskirts

Gardens within temples of Pure Land Buddhism

Heian attitudes towards nature and garden design

Genji Monogatan ” Use Tale of Genji”

Sakutet-ki ’The Classic of Garden Making’

Rocks in the sand: Gardens of austerity

The Kamakura era

The second large wave of Chinese influence on Japan

The Muromachi era

Transition to a new garden prototype

The new garden prototype of the Muromachi era

kare-sansui – the dry landscape garden

Muromachi attitudes towards nature and garden design

Changes in thematic inspiration, authorship and architectural setting

Aesthetic ideals of the Muromachi era and their influence on garden design: monomane- yugen – yohaku no bi

Sansui narabmi yake:-zu an illustrated treatise on garden landscapes

Path anh goal: Garden of seclusion

The Azuchi-Momoyama era

Birth of the joka-machi. the “town below the castle”

The early Edo era

Neo-Confuciamsm the third, indirect wave of Chinese influence on Japan

Stereotypical forms of the Momoyama pond garden Variational types of the Momoyama kare-sansui dry landscape garden

The combination of kare-sansui with o-kankomi

The new garden prototype of the Momoyama era: Roji. the rustic tea garden

Momoyama attitudes towards nature and garden design

Tea masters and Commissioners of Public Works as the new designers of gardens

The Sukiya style – a new architectural setting for the Japanese garden

Aesthetic ideals of the Momoyama era and theif influence on garden design

Shokoku chaniwa merseki zue an illustrated manual of famous tea gardens

Famous views from literature and reality: Gardens as substitutes for travel

From the Edo to the Meiji era

Political system and class society The nse of a merchant culture

Intellectual trends and counter-trends

Stereotypical forms of the Edo pond garden

Stereotypical forms of the Edo dry landscape garden Shakkei ’ borrowed” scenery in pond and dry landscape gardens of the Edo era

The new garden prototype of the Edo era the large garden for strolling

Gardens in retreats built by former samurai turned scholars, priests and tea masters

Edo attitudes towards nature and garden design

The carver anh the carved: Gardens as mindscapes

From the Meiji era to the present

Westernization versus traditionalism

The garden in Meiji, Tatsho and Shows times Stereotypical forms of the Meip pond garden Stereotypical forms of the dry landscape garden Since the Meiji era

Stereotypical forms of the Meiji tea garden

The contemporary prototype gardens as mindscapes

Contemporary attitudes towards nature and garden design