Inside Your Japanese Garden: A Guide to Creating a Unique Japanese Garden for Your Home

170 Pages·2022·98.453 MB·English

by  Sadao Yasumoro, Joseph Cali, Hironori Tomino (photo)

ii INSIDE YOUR JAPANESE GARDEN
Chapter Head iii

I N S I D E YO U R
JAPAN E S E
G A R D E N
SADAO YASUMORO & JOSEPH CALI
photography by HIRONORI TOMINO
TUTTLE Publishing
Tokyo Rutland, Vermont Singapore
avoid “rivers” and straight lines
smaller stones
surrounding large stone
corner, side, top stones
small filler stones
diagonal
crossing pattern
following the hito 人 character pattern
to avoid straight lines
CONTENTS
Getting Started
Don’t Follow This Manual 7
Chapter One
The Garden, the Entrance and the Automobile 19
A Wall of Memory in a Shady Garden 20
Garden of the NASA Astrophysicist 24
A Garden for Lasting Relations 28
A Professor’s Terrace of Stone, Horsetails and Water 34
The Salaryman’s Rice Terrace Garden 38
The Rustic Elegance of the Amigasa Mon Gate 42
Chapter Two
Backyards and Gardens of the Gods 49
Paradise in an Urban Jungle 50
A Stairway up the Mountain 54
The Landslide That Became a Garden 58
How to Make a Koshikake Machiai Covered Waiting Bench 62
The Urban Farmer with a Backyard Stroll Garden 66
How to Make a Small Dobashira Earthen Bridge 71
The Garden of Plum Blossoms and Students’ Prayers 72
How to Make a Large Dobashira Earthen Bridge 78
Buddha’s Mountain Retreat of Moss and Stone 82
The Tatsutagawa River Garden 88
Garden of the Bell Tower 92
Chapter Three
Small Sanctuaries and Gardens for Refreshment 97
Garden for a Tea Get-together 98
Arranging Stones for the Koshikake Machiai Covered
Waiting Bench 102
A Tea Garden for an Urban Farmhouse 104
View of a Tsuboniwa from the Couch 108
Climb the Stairs to a Private Gem 110
A Small Garden Made by the Birds 114
A Tsuboniwa for Visvim 118
Reconstructing an Old Teahouse 122
Chapter Four
Some Other Things You Should Know 126
Handling Stone and Making a Japanese-style Stone Wall 126
Mud on the Walls, Mud on the Floors 142
Working with Bamboo 148
List of plants appearing in this book 156
Index 157
Gardens in this book that can be visited 159
Acknowledgments 159