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| Wednesday, 6-Aug-2008 05:02 |
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Tsuboniwa (the courtyard garden)
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This narrow garden is a design in two stages
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white sand is used to bring reflected light indoors
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A lantern is nearby for illumination
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Yukini-gata lantern
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A typical tsukubai, well integrated with its site
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A signpost at a fork in a path
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THE COURTYARD GARDEN
The courtyard garden - called tsuboniwa in Japanese - is a garden in a small, enclosed area. the gardener does not fill it up; this would only congest it. Instead he carefully arranges a few items and uses their relationships to suggest more than is immediately visible to the eye. He adds manmade items like lanterns and tsukubai (water basins) to humanize the garden, to decorate it, and to allow it to function practically in daily life. he aims for balance and proportion without resorting to geometric artifice. He links the garden compositionally ti his home. And he exploits numerous untouchables; wind direction, sounds, seasons, sunlight, the true and apparent dimensions of empty space.
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| Tuesday, 5-Aug-2008 07:53 |
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Japanese Garden: landscape Project from My House
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the elements of stone pavement, tsukubai curtain waterfall.
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it's look like a natural pool
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rugged and rustic
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waterfall and sishi odoshi
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from house looking outward the verandah
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Japanese carp babies
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A garden, be it Western or Japanese, is like speech; it is an expression with intention and design. the gardener selects plantings and ornaments that please him, and arranges them by whatever criteria he feels are important; he may favor function over shape, or color over texture. He is practical and accumulates information before deciding anything; he checks the pH of his soil, studies the climate, investigates drainage problems, considers the needs of his household, figures costs, estimates the time required for maintenance. On these counts, Western and Japanese gardeners are much the same. Yet the languages thier gardens speak are different.
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| Tuesday, 5-Aug-2008 06:49 |
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Ryoan-ji, Japanese Zen Garden : Project from My House
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stones are sometimes almost completely buried
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Dry pond; every rock in the stream was carefully layered
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the stone apron is slope for drainage
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THE STONE GARDEN
Within a hard stone are movement, direction, centuries of accumulated time. The gardener's task is to make these qualities visible to the human eye. He selects rough, natural stones and sets them firmly in the ground. He makes pathways and borders or suggests a waterfall, a stream, or a mountain. He may add greenery to balance or soften the stones with change and instability. And if his stones are weighty and exert a deep-rooted sense of strength and power in his garden, he says that they "live". the effect can be profound, as is realized by a character in a novel by Yasunari Kawabata: "the stone garden, weathered for centuries, had taken on such an antique patina that the stones looked as if they had always been there. However, their stiff, angular forms left no doubt that it was a human composition....'Shall we go home?' she asked. 'The stones are beginning to frighten me.
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