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The Japanese Garden
The garden as philosophy, across a thousand years.
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- Author
- Sophie Walker
- Publisher
- Phaidon
- Published
- January 2017
- Pages
- 0
- Format
- Hardcover
- Size
- Standard
- Language
- English
The Library Essay
Emptiness Is Part of the Design
The Japanese garden is not a display of plants but a made landscape charged with meaning, where raked gravel can stand for ocean, a borrowed mountain completes the composition, and what is left out works as hard as what is planted. Sophie Walker, a garden designer, surveys the tradition across more than ninety gardens and many centuries, from temple precincts and tea gardens to modern and contemporary work.
Phaidon published the volume in 2017, the photographs interleaved with Walker's thematic essays and contributions from artists and architects on what the gardens teach. It serves as the fullest recent introduction in English to an art form in which Buddhism, poetry and horticulture are inseparable, and in which a garden is understood to be finished by the mind of the person standing in it.
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