Vila Kekaisaran Katsura itu apa sih?

, atau Istana Terpisah Katsura, adalah kediaman Kekaisaran dengan taman dan bangunan luar terkait di pinggiran barat Kyoto, Jepang. Terletak di tepi barat Sungai Katsura di Katsura, Nishikyō-ku, Villa berjarak 8 km dari Istana Kekaisaran Kyoto yang utama. Vila dan taman secara nasional diakui sebagai Properti Kebudayaan Penting Jepang.

Koneksi ke ide-ide tradisional Jepang dan Buddha

Vila Kekaisaran Katsura adalah contoh yang baik dari esensi desain tradisional Jepang. Vila menggabungkan prinsip-prinsip yang biasanya digunakan di kuil Shinto awal dan menggabungkannya dengan estetika dan filosofi Buddhisme Zen.

Walter Gropius, Kenzo Tange, Yasuhiro Ishimoto (photographs), Katsura: Tradition and Creation in Japanese Architecture (Yale University Press, New Haven, Zokeisha Publications, Tokyo, 1960) is a good (although early) work.

Teiji Itoh, Takeji Iwamiya, Imperial Gardens of Japan (Weatherill, New York, 1970) covers the gardens in great detail

Scott, Ted, "Imperial Gardens of Japan" (Amazon.com, 2008) describes and illustrates four imperial gardens in Kyoto.

Teiji Itoh, Tadashi Yokoyama, Eiji Musha, Makato Suzuki, and Masao Arai and Taisuke Ogawa (photographs), Katsura: A Quintessential Representative of the Sukiya Style of Architecture ( Shinkenchiku-Sha, Tokyo, 1983) gives much internal detail, learned during the refurbishment of 1976-1982.

Akira Naito, Takeshi Nishikawa (photographs), (translated Charles S. Terry), Katsura: A Princely Retreat (Kodansha, New York, 1977) is a magnificent book, the definitive work on Katsura in English.

. Contains articles by Walter Gropius, Bruno Taut and Kenzo Tange on the impact of the villa.