Inside Your Japanese Garden: A Guide to Creating a Unique Japanese Garden for Your Home PDF
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ii INSIDE YOUR JAPANESE GARDEN Chapter Head iii I N S I D E YO U R JAPAN E S E G A R D E N SADAO YASUMORO & JOSEPH CALI photography by HIRONORI TOMINO TUTTLE Publishing Tokyo Rutland, Vermont Singapore avoid “rivers” and straight lines smaller stones surrounding large stone corner, side, top stones small filler stones diagonal crossing pattern following the hito 人 character pattern to avoid straight lines CONTENTS Getting Started Don’t Follow This Manual 7 Chapter One The Garden, the Entrance and the Automobile 19 A Wall of Memory in a Shady Garden 20 Garden of the NASA Astrophysicist 24 A Garden for Lasting Relations 28 A Professor’s Terrace of Stone, Horsetails and Water 34 The Salaryman’s Rice Terrace Garden 38 The Rustic Elegance of the Amigasa Mon Gate 42 Chapter Two Backyards and Gardens of the Gods 49 Paradise in an Urban Jungle 50 A Stairway up the Mountain 54 The Landslide That Became a Garden 58 How to Make a Koshikake Machiai Covered Waiting Bench 62 The Urban Farmer with a Backyard Stroll Garden 66 How to Make a Small Dobashira Earthen Bridge 71 The Garden of Plum Blossoms and Students’ Prayers 72 How to Make a Large Dobashira Earthen Bridge 78 Buddha’s Mountain Retreat of Moss and Stone 82 The Tatsutagawa River Garden 88 Garden of the Bell Tower 92 Chapter Three Small Sanctuaries and Gardens for Refreshment 97 Garden for a Tea Get-together 98 Arranging Stones for the Koshikake Machiai Covered Waiting Bench 102 A Tea Garden for an Urban Farmhouse 104 View of a Tsuboniwa from the Couch 108 Climb the Stairs to a Private Gem 110 A Small Garden Made by the Birds 114 A Tsuboniwa for Visvim 118 Reconstructing an Old Teahouse 122 Chapter Four Some Other Things You Should Know 126 Handling Stone and Making a Japanese-style Stone Wall 126 Mud on the Walls, Mud on the Floors 142 Working with Bamboo 148 List of plants appearing in this book 156 Index 157 Gardens in this book that can be visited 159 Acknowledgments 159
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