Book description
Photographs highlight this study of the history and creation of the Japanese courtyard borrowed-landscape gardens
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1 author picked Space and Illusion in the Japanese Garden as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book was far ahead of its time in explaining the active manipulation of space and time in traditional Japanese gardens, from the diminutiveĀ tsuboniwa courtyard gardens that transported the city dweller to the heart of the wilderness, to the temple gardens that procured remote features of the natural landscape.
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