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Of all the monographs on Japanese garden design, this book provides the best overview of the underlying cultural context that has been the basis for its development. While this book does not desribe individual gardens in detail, it adresses both the historical context and the many other influences that have shaped the aesthetic of the Japanese garden. More so than in any previous monograph, Marc Peter Keane points out the influences of Japan’s prehistoric period, Shintoism and Buddhism as it relates to the veneration of landscape and nature.

“The Japanese garden is not simply nature, … The Japanese garden is and has always been nature crafted by man. It belongs to the realm of architecture and is, at its best, nature as art.” Originally titled “The Architecture of the Japanese Garden”, Günter Nitschke has created one of the great monographs written about the Japanese garden in the West.

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