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• Title:The Japanese Garden / Sophie Walker ; contributors, Tadao Andō [and others].
  
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• Author/Creator:Walker, Sophie, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Andō, Tadao, 1941- contributor.
  
• Published/Created:London : Phaidon Press, 2017.
  ©2017
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: SB466.J3 W35 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Gardens--Japan--History.
  Gardens--Japan--Pictorial works.
  
• Description:303 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 27 cm
  
• Summary:An in-depth exploration spanning 800 years of the art, essence, and enduring impact of the Japanese garden. The most comprehensive exploration of the art of the Japanese garden published to date, this book covers more than eight centuries of the history of this important genre. Author and garden designer Sophie Walker brings fresh insight to this subject, exploring the Japanese garden in detail through a series of essays and with 100 featured gardens, ranging from ancient Shinto shrines to imperial gardens and contemporary Zen designs. Leading artists, architects, and other cultural practitioners offer personal perspectives in newly commissioned essays.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical index.
  
• ISBN:9780714874777 hardcover
  0714874779 hardcover
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: Beauty, Terror and Power
  Way, Body and Mind
  Expanded Understanding
  Duality and Reflection
  Hidden, Implied and Imagined
  Zen Challenge: The Unenterable Garden
  Time, Space and the Dry Garden
  Death, Tea and the Garden
  Inner Space: The Courtyard Garden
  Poetry of Plants
  Essays / Lee Ufan
  Tan Twan Eng
  Tatsuo Miyajima
  Marcus du Sautoy
  John Pawson
  Anish Kapoor
  Tadao Ando
  Plants of Japan
  Periods of Japanese History
  Map of Japan.