A Japanese Touch for Your Garden - Hardcover

Seike, Kiyoshi; Etc.; Kudo, Masanobu

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0870113917 ISBN 13: 9780870113918

Publisher: Kodansha America, Inc, 1980

Synopsis

One hundred fifty full-color plates illustrate a guide to creating a Japanese garden that includes ground plans and a concise text.

About this title

Review:

"A good specialist book on the subject." -- South Wales Echo, 26 February 2000

"A super reference and source of inspiration, generously illustrated with many colour photographs." -- The Water Gardener,March 2001

About the Author:

KIYOSHI SELKE was born in Kyoto in 1918 and holds degrees from the Tokyo Academy of Fine Arts and the Tokyo Institute of Technology. One of postwar Japan's most original and thoughtful residential designers, he was with Masanobu Kudo a chief editor of Sakutei no Jiten (Encyclopedia of Garden Making). He is currently professor emeritus at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology. MASANOBU KUDO was born in Tokyo in 1924 and holds a degree in East Asian history from Kyoto University. He helped found the avant-garde Ohara school of flower arranging and in 1969 became the director of the Japan Ikebana Arts Association. An acknowledged expert on flowers, trees, and plants, he has contributed to numerous publications on flower arranging and Japanese gardens. DAVID H. ENGEL, who served as editorial consultant for this volume, is a prominent American landscape architect and site planner. For several years in the 1950s, he studied in Japan under Tansai Sano, the late master landscape architect of Kyoto. Now in practice with an office in New York City, Mr. Engel does both private residential and large scale commercial and public work. His designs include Heian pavilions for the headquarters of the Gulf States Paper Corporation and the Japanese garden on the Rockefeller estate, acknowledged to be the finest in the Western world. A contributor to House Beautiful and The New Yorker, Mr. Engel is also the author of Japanese Gardens for Today.

About this edition

• Publisher: Kodansha America, Inc
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0870113917
• ISBN 13: 9780870113918
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 80