{"product_id":"kyoto-gardens-masterworks-of-the-japanese-gardeners-art-9784805315965","title":"Kyoto Gardens: Masterworks of the Japanese Gardener's Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eKyoto Gardens: A Journey of Beauty and Contemplation offers a unique perspective on Kyoto's famous gardens, featuring lyrical images and poetic essays. It includes the Old Imperial Palace Garden, Heian Jingu Shrine Garden, Ginkaku-ji Pure Land Garden, Kinkaku-ji Estate Garden, Ryoan-ji Zen Rock Garden, Saiho-ji Moss Garden, and Tofuku-ji Zen Garden. Updated and revised with new photographs, it provides historic, aesthetic, and cultural context. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 144 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 09 August 2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Tuttle Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKyoto Gardens offer a unique way to bring the art and beauty of Japan to your garden. With their ability to provoke deep contemplation and joy, these gardens are a labor of love from master photographer Ben Simmons and longtime Kyoto-based writer Judith Clancy. This book contains lyrical images and poetic essays describing Kyoto's most famous gardens, including the Old Imperial Palace Garden, Heian Jingu Shrine Garden, Ginkaku-ji Pure Land Garden, Kinkaku-ji Estate Garden, Ryoan-ji Zen Rock Garden, and Saiho-ji Moss Garden. The Old Imperial Palace Garden is a massive walled complex filled with flowering plants, trees, and buildings that served as the official residence of the Japanese emperor for over 500 years before 1868 and is now a public park. The Heian Jingu Shrine Garden is constructed on the site of the ancient capital and filled with lush greenery, ponds, rocks, bridges, and pavilions that float above the water, providing a sense of tranquility and natural beauty. The Ginkaku-ji Pure Land Garden is an earthly paradise featuring a massive truncated mound of packed sand that is resculpted by hand daily. The Kinkaku-ji Estate Garden is perhaps Kyoto's most recognizable sight, a Golden Pavilion perched on the edge of a tranquil pond on whose smooth surface are reflected beautiful rocks and cypress trees placed all around it. The Ryoan-ji Zen Rock Garden is the purest expression of a world in miniature, expressed as a sea of raked gravel with islands of natural stone and moss set in its midst, walled off from the outside world to provide a place for meditation and contemplation. The Saiho-ji Moss Garden is famed for its moist and soft, shimmering green covering of moss, and was designed as a place of tranquility and reflection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 709g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 203 x 203 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9784805315965\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Judith Clancy","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":46658007105786,"sku":"9784805315965","price":11.41,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/files\/1726225080639_book.jpg?v=1726298967","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/kyoto-gardens-masterworks-of-the-japanese-gardeners-art-9784805315965","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}