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Title: Japanese Touch for Your Garden by Kiyoshi Seike, Masanobu Kudo, Haruzo Ohashi, David H. Engel ISBN: 4-7700-1661-1 Publisher: Kodansha International Pub. Date: February, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best Guidebook for Planning Your First Japanese Garden
Comment: Not a coffee table glamour book, not a glossed-over editorial toss-off destined for the remainder bin. This is quite simply the best guidebook for the amateur of the Japanese garden who wishes to try out the concepts at home.
It can be very frustrating to take home some fancy book on Zen gardens, only to find that it contains no real help for creating one. This book's real, step-by-step, practical advice is what anyone is after. It does not pretend to be the end-all of the art, & rather it admits this right from the title (A Japanese TOUCH...) This book will get you the right LOOK.
I found especially useful the diagrams of how to get balance (especially through rocks) within a space. There are some very good illustrations of bamboo fencing, too. Botanical suggestions and lists of suppliers are also helpful, but these lists are not exhaustive. You can achieve the basic framework with this book, though. I have yet to find a better Japanese gardening book... room for improvement is in expanding the above lists and adding practical suggestions for more ambitious, larger landscaping. But this will get you the basics.
Bonus delight is the first entry, a mood-setting piece on one man's contemplation of mountains and forests... all to be found in his tiny Japanese garden.
Grab a copy and use it and love your results!
Rating: 5
Summary: A Japanese Touch for your Garden
Comment: The photos are excellent. One of my favorite books on Japanese
garden design.
Rating: 5
Summary: Japanese Touch for Your Garden
Comment: I had looked everywhere for a book that would describe Japanese fences and how to tie them. This book describes how to build 14 or so fences in good detail with drawings to help. It also taught me to tie the knots required for the fencing. Gates are also discussed along with stone placement and plantings. It's a book I truly appreciate.
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Title: Creating Your Own Japanese Garden by Takashi Sawano ISBN: 087040962X Publisher: Japan Publications Pub. Date: 01 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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Title: Japanese Touch for Your Home by Koji Yagi, Ryo Hata, Mark B. Williams ISBN: 477001662X Publisher: Kodansha International Pub. Date: April, 1992 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Creating Japanese Gardens (Ortho's All About Gardening) by Alvin Horton, Meredith Books ISBN: 0897214897 Publisher: Ortho Books Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Japanese Gardening in Small Spaces by Isao Yoshikawa ISBN: 0870409778 Publisher: Japan Publications Pub. Date: February, 1997 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Creating Japanese Gardens by Philip Cave ISBN: 0804831009 Publisher: Charles E Tuttle Co Pub. Date: August, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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