Japanese Gardens by Gunter Nitschke; Taschen GmbH, 2007
240 x 300 x 24 mm; 240 pages; illustrated; hardcover; very good condition
Taschen’s 25th anniversary edition
Beautifully illustrated, Nitschke writes how ‘The Japanese garden is not simply nature, not simply “self-created”, as the literal translation of the Japanese word for nature – shizen – would have us believe. The Japanese garden is and has always been nature crafted by man. It belongs to realm of architecture and is, at its nature as art.’
Nitschke details the characteristics of the five major epochs in the history of the Japanese garden as well as identifying the common theme throughout: the attempt to unite ‘the seeming randomness of natural form and the strict geometry of the right angle’.
‘This book is itself a work of art, produced with sound insight and loving attention to detail and lavishly illustrated’ – Japan Magazine, London
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