Inside Your Japanese Garden
A Guide to Creating a Unique Japanese Garden for Your Home
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Publisher Description
Learn how to create a tranquil outdoor space at home with this practical and inspiring guide!
With instructive drawings and step-by-step techniques, Inside Your Japanese Garden walks you through designing and creating your very own Japanese garden. From small projects like benches and gates, to larger undertakings like bridges and mud walls, this book provides a wide variety of ways to enhance the space around your home, no matter the size. Instructions on how to work with stone, mud and bamboo--as well as a catalogue of the 94 plant varieties used in the gardens shown in the book--round out this complete guide.
This book also features 19 gardens that author Sadao Yasumoro has designed and built in Japan, and some--like those at Visvim shop in Tokyo and at Yushima Tenjin in Tokyo--are open to the public. From small tsuboniwa courtyard gardens to a large backyard stroll garden with water features, stairs and walls, these real-life inspirations will help spark your own garden plan.
These inspirational garden projects include:Tea Garden for an Urban Farmhouse featuring a clay wall with a split-bamboo framework and a stone baseThe Landslide That Became a Garden with a terraced slope, trees, bushes, long grasses and mossA Buddha's Mountain Retreat of Moss and Stone with a vertical-split bamboo fence and a brushwood fenceParadise in an Urban Jungle with a pond, bridge, and lanterns
Each garden is beautifully photographed by Hironori Tomino and many have diagrams and drawings to show the essential elements used in the planning and construction.
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"Gardening is not a theory. It is all about learning the various scenes presented by nature," write designers Cali (The New Zen Garden) and Yasumoro in this highly detailed overview of 20 Japanese gardens. The authors begin with an introduction to Japanese gardening, outlining such fundamentals as digging a hole to determine drainage and soil content, and cover concepts including size variation in plants and other features ("three stones are never the same size") to create perspective. The garden overviews that follow include a wealth of design schemata and background information about gardening's history and religious philosophy: "A Garden for Lasting Relations" in Tokyo features Japanese sago palm trees, which are believed to "keep the devil away," while in "Paradise in an Urban Jungle" the authors introduce the concept of shakkei, which means "borrowed scenery." Then there's "The Garden of Plum Blossoms and Students' Prayers," a garden near a famous shrine in Tokyo, which makes use of misogi, or purification by water. The lush photographs and encouraging tone are a boost: When Cali asks Yasumoro what one word defines the Japanese garden, Yasumoro answers, "Heart." Fans of garden design will want to give this a look.
