Main entry:

Conder, J. (Josiah), 1852-1920.

Title & Author:

Landscape gardening in Japan. With the Supplement of 40 plates & a new pref. by Clay Lancaster.

Publication:

New York, Dover Publications [1964]

Description:

xv, 251 pages illustrations, plans 29 cm.

Series:

Dover books on orientalia

Notes:
"Unabridged and corrected republication of the second, revised (1912) edition of Landscape gardening in Japan, and the Supplement to landscape gardening in Japan, both originally published by Messrs. Kelly & Walsh Limited in 1893."
Chapter I: History -- Chapter II: Garden stones -- Chapter III: Garden lanterns -- Chapter IV: Garden pagodas -- Chapter V: Garden water basins -- Chapter VI: Garden enclosures -- Chapter VII: Garden wells -- Chapter VIII: Garden bridges -- Chapter IX: Garden arbours -- Chapter X: Ornamental water -- Chapter XI: Garden vegetation -- Chapter XII: Garden composition.

Summary:

Landscape Gardening in Japan was first published in 1893 by Josiah Conder, a British architect, urban planner, and teacher, who had come to Japan in 1877 to serve as a professor of architecture at the forerunner of Tokyo University and as a consultant to the Ministry of Engineering. A man of wide interests, Conder was encouraged by the warm reception given his 1891 Flowers of Japan and the Art of Floral Arrangement to undertake a book on gardening. In preparing the present book, he relied not entirely on his own observations but consulted, and "freely borrowed from," some of the most reliable Japanese sources available at the time, the oldest dating to 1633. The resulting book is the product of a Western, Victorian perspective with access to Japanese authoritative texts. Conder's study of the Japanese landscape garden led him to conclude that it represented universal qualities that could be applied to gardening anywhere. In addition to a discussion of these broader truths, the book is so finely detailed and so richly illustrated that it still serves today as a guide to modern garden-lovers, whether of a practical or a theoretical bent. The present volume combines the original study with an additional volume of photographs of famous gardens that was published shortly thereafter and entitled Supplement to Landscape Gardening in Japan. The interior of the book has been redesigned and the text newly set for easier reading and viewing.

ISBN:

0486212165
9780486212166
0486265595
9780486265599

Subject:

Landscape gardening Japan.
Gardening Japan.
Gardens, Japanese.
Gardens Japan.
Jardins Architecture Japon.
Jardins japonais.
Jardins Japon.
Jardinage Japon.
Gardens
Gardening
Landscape gardening
Tuinen.
Tuinarchitectuur.
Japan

Added entries:

Dover books on orientalia.

Holdings:

Location: Library main price 267624
Call No.: BIB 199593
Status: Available