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    Japanese Stone Gardens: Origins, Meaning, Form
    Japanese Stone Gardens: Origins, Meaning, Form
    Japanese Stone Gardens: Origins, Meaning, Form
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    Japanese Stone Gardens: Origins, Meaning, Form

    By Stephen Mansfield and Donald Richie

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    Gain some new ideas along with the principles and history of Japanese stone gardening with this useful and beautiful garden design book.

    Japanese Stone Gardens provides a comprehensive introduction to the powerful mystique and dynamism of the Japanese stone garden--from their earliest use as props in animistic rituals, to their appropriation by Zen monks and priests to create settings conducive to contemplation and finally to their contemporary uses and meaning. With insightful text and abundant imagery, this book reveals the hidden order of stone gardens and in the process heightens the enthusiast's appreciation of them.

    The Japanese stone garden is an art form recognized around the globe. These meditative gardens provide tranquil settings, where visitors can shed the burdens and stresses of modern existence, satisfy an age-old yearning for solitude and repose, and experience the restorative power of art and nature. For this reason, the value of the Japanese stone garden today is arguably even greater than when many of them were created.

    Fifteen gardens are featured in this book: some well known, such as the famous temple gardens of Kyoto, others less so, among them gardens spread through the south of Honshu Island and the southern islands of Shikoku and Kyushu and in faraway Okinawa.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTuttle Publishing
    Release dateMar 13, 2012
    ISBN9781462905980
    Japanese Stone Gardens: Origins, Meaning, Form
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    Stephen Mansfield

    Stephen Mansfield is the New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln's Battle with God, The Faith of Barack Obama, Pope Benedict XVI, Searching for God and Guinness, and Never Give In: The Extraordinary Character of Winston Churchill. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife, Beverly.

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