Teachings of the Garden (eBook)

Conversations in Japan

Carola Platzek (Autor)

Carola Platzek (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
92 Seiten
Schlebrügge.Editor (Verlag)
978-3-903172-94-4 (ISBN)

Infos

In contemplating Japanese gardens, it becomes clear that these cannot be viewed as isolated from other arts or social processes. Within them, approaches of the most different provenances connect, all of which seek to achieve a balanced arrangement of the elements which comprise the spiritual and physical worlds. Thus, the Japanese garden appears as neither wholly contemplative nor purely aesthetic, but rather as a social compendium that might tell of the order which is underlying a society. The garden is a Gesamtkunstwerk, as well as an applied philosophy.

An eleventh-century Japanese gardening manual was the origin of Carola Platzek's studies which explore the history of Japanese gardens. The essence of the Sakuteiki prevails today: the precise observation of nature in order to design a garden according to its surroundings. The Viennese cultural researcher and art historian converses with gardeners, garden historians, academics and researchers, as well as Buddhist and Shintō priests; to illuminate how they work with traditional and modern concepts which inform garden arrangement and design in Japan. The book introduces the reader to these fascinating concepts and their interconnections, which include: orientational principles such as the theories of harmony and spatial consciousness; the five elements and the four cardinal points; aesthetic paradigms as formulated in the Way of Tea, or in the genre of the Eight Views; and waka and haiku poetry.

Autor

Carola Platzek studied history and philosophy in Leipzig, Grenoble and Vienna. She is an author, art scholar and cultural researcher.

Inhalt

Carola Platzek, Preface
Oguni Syuichi, Gardener, Tōkyō
Kaji Kenji, Shintō High Priest, Tōkyō
Amasaki Hiromasa, Garden historian and gardener, Kyōto
Fujisato Myōkyū, Buddhist High Priest and Abbot, Hiraizumi
Yagasaki Zentarō, Architectural historian, Kyōto
Katō Tomoki, Gardener, Kyōto
Torigoe Keiko, Musicologist, Tōkyō
Noda Eiichi, Historian, Tōkyō
Nishiyama Masatoshi, Landscaper and garden designer, Tōkyō
Mitani Yasuhiko, Landscape architect and gardener, Tōkyō
Akasaka Makoto, Landscape researcher, Tōkyō
Biographies
Periods in Japanese History
Classics of Japanese Literature
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.8.2022
• Mitarbeit: Interview von: Carola Platzek; Interviewte Person: Makoto Akasaka, Hiromasa Amasaki, Fujisato Myōkyū, Kenji Kaji, Tomoki Katō, Yasuhiko Mitani, Masatoshi Nishiyama, Eiichi Noda, Syuichi Oguni, Keiko Torigoe, Zentarō Yagasaki
• Zusatzinfo: numerous color illustrations
• Verlagsort: Wien
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Architectural History • Architecture • Edo Period • garden designer • garden design manual • gardening philosophy • handbook for garden design • Heian period • History of the Japanese Garden • Japanese Gardens • Japanese history • Kamakura period • Kyoto • Landscape architecture • landscaper • Landscape Researcher • Sakuteiki • theory • Tokyo
• ISBN-10: 3-903172-94-4 / 3903172944
• ISBN-13: 978-3-903172-94-4 / 9783903172944