[図解露地・茶庭づくり]
Published: 1930
Language: jpn
Number of pages: 21
Subjects: Japanese tea gardens; Pictorial works; Design; Tea gardens; Influence
Other titles: [Zukai roji, chatei zukuri]; [Roji, chatei zukuri]; [Yamaguchi Shosai's sketch manuscript]
Description: "Illustrating design concepts for tea gardens (Roji) after the highly influential master garden designer, Jihei Ogawa with an emphasis on the use of flowering plants. Some works prepared as cover illustrations for garden and design magazines."--AbeBooks.com.

"Sketches of design elements for inner tea gardens with the emphasis on flowering plants and their use. Many designs build on contrasts of flowering plants at the periphery that build pleasingly complex repeating rhythms that center the shifting, restless eye into tranquility-wabi. There are sketches of vertical tile designs with flowering plant borders; raked earth designs in stream beds with flowering plant borders; stream designs incorporating groups of feeding dove birds; flowering plant clusters designed to attract lepidoptera; several fine walkway designs; a sketch of dressed stones after plumage and a sketch of low-lying sleeve-like fencings with wildflowers."--AbeBooks.com.
Notes: Ms. (hand-colored brushed sketches by artist).

Title supplied by cataloger.

Creator of manuscript: Yamaguchi Shosai (original script not known; lived in Kyoto. Flourished 1900-1930, active in landscape design).

Place of production: Kyoto; date of production from library's record.

Bound in Tetchōsō (Yamatotoji) style.