Mar 5th, 2010
Create Your Own Japanese Garden: A Practical Guide
Create Your Own Japanese Garden: A Practical Guide
Price: $17.99
Create Your Own Japanese Garden: A Practical Guide
Product Description
In this book, renowned garden designer Motomi Oguchi offers the reader a step-by-step, practical approach to creating Japanese gardens, drawn from a wealth of experience that covers thirty years and encompasses the design of more than 400 gardens. The author uses real examples from gardens he has designed, constructed, and photographed to illustrate his key points, approaching each work from the perspective of the home or building owner.
Oguchi begins with front gardens, as these are usually what one encounters first when entering a home. Typically, these front plantings are not defined Japanese garden types but rather, physical areas. He then moves on to tsubo niwa (courtyard gardens) and kare sansui (dry gardens) that might be found in the middle or rear of a building, or any available small space. Next, he introduces tea and tree gardens, which are more likely to be sections of a larger garden; and highlights specific characteristics and conditions of interior gardens.
Within each chapter are general layouts and methods of developing the various gardens, which precede specific, step-by-step instructions. The author also offers practical and affordable variations on more ambitious designs and shows how they can be adapted to the readers home or building. In addition, Oguchi emphasizes the importance of proper maintenance and offers suggestions for special touches and restoration.
Create Your Own Japanese Garden: A Practical Guide
Create Your Own Japanese Garden: A Practical Guide
Create Your Own Japanese Garden: A Practical Guideinspired me to not only create my own Japanese garden, but I am adding an outdoor shower designed along the lines of a very small tea house. I hope this is not considered disrespectful of the Japanese culture!
Star Rating: 5 / 5
A very informative book with pictures showing great details of Japanese gardens with construction tips. The illustrations show the tranquility of these gardens with layouts for some.
Star Rating: 5 / 5
After buying and reading many books on design of Japanese gardens and being dissatisfied because of no detailed help, this book was refreshing. This book bridges the gap between concept and digging a hole to plant a tree. Is well worth the cost.
Star Rating: 4 / 5
This is not really a how-to book. The author shows, in detail, how to recreate some gardens that he created for clients. While this is interesting, you really can’t create your own Japanese garden using this book.
Star Rating: 3 / 5
Love this great book! Motomi Oguchi’s first in English!
I have it displayed like a coffee table book, and relish over as a tresure I can disappear away into… Our tropically themed yard that has unparralled panoramic views offering one perfection longings of West, North and East will be comlimented and made more elegant with some Japanese themes running the spine of our yard… Japanese rock walkways, lit gracefully with stone lanturns… Something permanent in this ever un-permanent world. Yes, the true escape is home…
Love the details in this book and strict attention to tradition.
Lot’s of photo’s!!!
“Domo”, Motomi Oguchi for your wonderful agricultural gifts…
I will be checking out Joseph Cali’s new books, also.
Star Rating: 5 / 5