The Japanese tea garden

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The Japanese tea garden

Marc Peter Keane

Stone Bridge Press, c2009

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露地

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Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-280) and index

Contents of Works

  • 1. A brief history of tea
  • 2. Cultural background
  • 3. Muromachi society
  • 4. Early development of the roji
  • 5. From roji to chaniwa: tea gardens in the Edo
  • 6. Extant tea gardens and gardens influenced by tea
  • 7. Parts of a tea garden

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Description

Almost every Japanese garden is influenced by the tea garden. Keane describes the history, design, and aesthetics of tea gardens, from Tang China to the present day. The most extensive book on this genre ever published in English.

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