Japanese Gardens and Landscapes, 1650-1950

In Japanese Landscapes and Gardens, 1650-1950 Wybe Kuitert presents a richly illustrated survey of the gardens and the people who commissioned, created, and used them and chronicles the modernization of traditional aesthetics in the context of economic, political, and environmental transformation.

List of contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Landscape Enjoyed at Ease

Chapter 2. Garden Stuff and Blueprints for the Masses

Chapter 3. Time and Space in a Cup of Tea

Chapter 4. Defining the Japanese Garden: Science, Vacuum, and Confusion

Chapter 5. Passion and Emotion in the Meiji Landscape

Chapter 6. Reforming the Tradition

Chapter 7. Everybody's Landscape

Epilogue. The Cricket Cage

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Wybe Kuitert is a licensed landscape architect and Professor of Environmental Studies at Seoul National University. He is author of Themes in the History of Japanese Garden Art.

Product details

• Authors: Wybe Kuitert
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780812225150
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2515-0
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Penn Studies in Landscape Arch; Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works