Modern Japanese Garden

by Michiko Rico Nosé

Book Overview

Gain inspiration and new gardening ideas with this elegant and beautifully photographed Japanese gardening book.

Japanese garden design, know to the West primarily in its traditional form, has undergone striking developments over the last decade. Leading landscape designers such as Shunmyo Masuno, Masatoshi Takebe, Atsuchi Akenuki, and Yasujirou Aoki, as well as architects such as Kengo Kuma, Kan Izue, and Kisho Kurokawa, have been experimenting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804834377
• ISBN13: 9780804834377
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.2" x 11.2"

Customer Reviews

Inspiring beyond just japanese

This is a great book for designers with a clean aesthetic. I find it useful even when not working towards something that is 'Japanese' in style. We reviewed this at 'studio g' a blog about landscape design along with other good landscape books. [..]

I bought two. Can I give 6 stars?

I'm a garden designer and a big fan of exceptionally executed work. It is sometimes surprisingly hard to find good design work in design books, I often see one or two new ideas but almost never a whole book of inspiration like I found here. This book is both a pleasure to look through and also to read. I find new inspiration every time I open it, it is the most diverse book on Japanese garden design I've seen. Many other books illustrate basic Japanese garden design principles, but their gardens usually look very similar. This book escapes that trap stunningly. Use it for information, inspiration, imagination. You cannot go wrong here if design well done, exectued, maintained, and photographed is what you're looking for.

It can change the way you see

IMHO, this is the best book on home or garden design I've ever seen. It contains one brilliant idea after another for adapting the ancient principles of the Japanese garden to the contemporary world. One of them I'm adapting for my a tiny space in NYC. My wife, who is a plant fanatic, cannot believe what a beautiful and haunting space can be created without any living plants at all. The book forces you to see and to think and to move beyond the traditional Japanese garden as cliche and to think about what is timeless about thoughtful design.