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Zen Gardens

The Complete Works of Shunmyo Masuno, Japan's Leading Garden Designer

Innbundet
Engelsk
Zen Gardens
Zen Gardens
  • Forfatter: Mira Locher
  • Format: Innbundet
  • Antall sider: 224
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • EAN: 9784805311943
  • Utgivelsesår: 2012
  • Bidragsyter: Locher, Mira
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Shunmyo Masuno, Japan''s leading garden designer, is at once Japan''s most highly acclaimed landscape architect and an 18th-generation Zen Buddhist priest, presiding over daily ceremonies at the Kenkoji Temple in Yokohama. He is celebrated for his unique ability to blend strikingly contemporary elements with the traditional design vernacular. He has worked in ultramodern urban hotels and some of Japan''s most famous classic gardens. In each project, his work as a designer of landscape architecture is inseparable from his Buddhist practice. Each becomes a Zen garden, "a special spiritual place where the mind dwells."

This beautiful book, illustrated with more than 400 drawings and color photographs, is the first complete retrospective of Masuno''s work to be published in English. It presents 37 major gardens around the world in a wide variety of types and settings: traditional and contemporary, urban and rural, public spaces and private residences, and including temple, office, h