Landscapes for Small Spaces: Japanese Courtyard Gardens
By Katsuhiko Mizuno.
Description
Enjoy it for its sheer beauty or use it for inspiration while creating your own small landscape garden.Japanese gardening is the art of arranging plants, rocks, lanterns, and basins in an open or, as here, an enclosed space. According to the aesthetic principles long prevailing in Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan, even two rocks arranged in a tiny, enclosed space can be considered a garden. This type of garden is called a tsuboniwa, and Kyoto has long being considered its birthplace and home. So it is not surprising that photographer Katsuhiko Mizuno, wishing to capture the best of such ...
ISBN(s)
4770028741, 9784770028747
