Title: Mirei Shigemori - rebel in the garden :
Authors: Tschumi, Christian.
Date: 2007
Publisher: Birkhäuser,
Physical description: 203 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), plans, ports. ; 34 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: S
Contents: The spirit of the rocks / Christophe Girot -- Concept gardens / Günter Nitschke -- Mirei Shigemori and modern Japanese artistic creation / Kendall H. Brown -- Rebel with a cause / Christian Tschumi -- Life and influences -- The early years -- A broad education -- Some major changes -- The scholar and writer -- Ikebana : a lifelong passion -- Chadô : the way of tea -- Calligraphy -- Religion -- The mature years -- Strategy for renewal -- Rooted in place and culture -- Traditional and new design elements -- The lines and colors of nature -- Gardens -- The beginning -- Points of stone -- Lines in concrete -- Planes of gravel and sand -- Mounds and mountains -- Traditional, but new.
Subject headings (LCSH): Catalogues raisonnés.; Gardens, Japanese--Japan--History.; Gardens, Japanese--Zen influences; Gardens--Japan--Design--History.; Landscape architects--Japan--Biography.; Landscape gardening--Japan.; Shigemori, Mirei, 1896-1975; Shigemori, Mirei, 1896-1975--Catalogues raisonnés.; Stone in landscape gardening.