Teachings of the Garden
Subtitle: Conversations in Japan
Publisher: Pakesch & Schlebrugge, Verlag fur Kunst u. Literatur
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 91
ISBN-13: 9783903172272
Subjects: Philosophy, asian; Landscape architecture
Description: "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"--