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Sakuteiki (作庭記, literally, Records of Garden Making) is the oldest published Japanese text on garden-making. It was most likely the work of Tachibana Toshitsuna. [1] Sakuteiki is most likely the oldest garden planning text in the world. It was written in the mid-to-late 11th century. [2]
The Japanese Garden was designed by Ken Nakajima in 1992, includes a teahouse, waterfalls, bridges, and stone paths that wander among crepe myrtles, azaleas, Japanese maples, dogwoods and cherry trees. Hershey Gardens: Hershey: Pennsylvania: Includes a Japanese garden with rare giant sequoias, Dawn Redwood trees, Japanese maples and more.
Japanese gardens (日本庭園, nihon teien) are traditional gardens whose designs are accompanied by Japanese aesthetics and philosophical ideas, avoid artificial ornamentation, and highlight the natural landscape. Plants and worn, aged materials are generally used by Japanese garden designers to suggest a natural landscape, and to express the ...
Bright blue sky over the Japanese House. Shofuso (Pine Breeze Villa), (Japanese: 松風荘) also known as Japanese House and Garden, is a traditional 17th century-style Japanese house and garden located in Philadelphia's West Fairmount Park on the site of the Centennial Exposition of 1876. [1] Shofuso is a nonprofit historic site with over ...
The garden was designed by Kimio Kimura. [2] It follows Japanese garden design principles, using California native stone and plants. [1] The garden contains over 70 plant species including mondo grasses, Japanese black pine, cedar, juniper, and rhododendron. [2] No stains were used on the wood constructions. [1]
Kenroku-en (Japanese: 兼六園, Garden of Six Attributes), located in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan, is a strolling style garden constructed during the Edo period by the Maeda clan. [ 1 ] Along with Kairaku-en and Kōraku-en, Kenroku-en is considered one of the Three Great Gardens of Japan and is noted for its beauty across all seasons ...
Hoichi Kurisu (栗栖宝一, Kurisu Hōichi) is a noted designer of Japanese gardens, active in the United States. Kurisu studied landscape design and construction under Kenzo Ogata in Tokyo, Japan. He then was Landscape director for the Garden Society of Japan (Nihon Teien Kyokai) (1968–1972), during which time he supervised construction of ...
Takeo Uesugi. Takeo Uesugi (上杉武夫, Uesugi Takeo, 1940 – January 26, 2016) was a Japanese-American landscape architect who designed acclaimed Japanese garden installations. He was a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, [1] and Kyoto University. [2]