| | |  | Keyword Search: Cumbancha | Home » A Japanese Touch for Your Garden | | | | | | | Description: | | Here is a concise introduction to the practical aspects of making a Japanese garden. Whether your garden is a spacious suburban lot, an office countyard, or a tiny inner-city backyard, you will find here hundreds of creative but time-honored ways to make maximum use of the space you have. You will learn how to lay stones and pathways and how to create intriguing sand patterns like the ones in Zen temple gardens. You will learn about Japanese lanterns, miniature pagodas, water basins, gates, and walls, and will be shown step by step how to make a bamboo lattice fence. Notes on the care of bamboo, moss, and grass are provided as are names of native North American plants and trees that can be substituted for conventional Japanese varieties. Schematic layout plans, detailed how-to explanations, and over 130 color photographs of Japanese gardens old and new give you ideas for endless variations. Thoroughly up-to-date in its approach and based on the principle that a garden must satisfy the gardener, not a set of inflexible guidelines, this book encourages you to choose freely from the wide range of traditional Japanese design elements that suit your needs and tastes. Whether you live in the country, city, or somewhere in between, you will discover here numerous ways to transform--simply, inexpensively, and with your own two hands--that back porch, corridor, or yard into an intimate, tranquil oasis, one that will reward your planning and work with a rich and everchanging beauty. | | | Features: | |
• ISBN13: 9784770016614
• Condition: New
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| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Kiyoshi Seike | | Paperback:
| 80 pages | | Publisher:
| Kodansha International | | Publication Date:
| February 15, 1993 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 4770016611 | | Package Length:
| 11.7 inches | | Package Width:
| 8.5 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.5 inches | | Package Weight:
| 2.8 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 13 reviews |
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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Lots of Great IdeasSep 08, 2009
We have lived in Japan for eight years and wanted ideas for adding a bit of Japanese flavor to our back yard. This book has fantastic photos and descriptions and has given us a lot of ideas.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Fabulous BookMar 24, 2009
This book is a great source of information for those who either want to build (or design) a Japanese garden, or if they just want to know about the basic principles of Japanese garden design. The easy-to-understand explanations are supported by good photography and sketches. I would highly recommend this book to anyone that is entertaining the idea of building a Japanese garden. With the help of this book (and few others)I managed to build my own Japanese garden, on a roof, which was about 30 feet long by 25 feet wide.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Not a coffee table book, but practical guideMar 11, 2008
this book is a good accompanyment to other Japanese gardening books. Definitely not to decorate a coffee table, but to practically show one options (various bridges, paths, fencing, ponds, etc) that one can incorporate into their garden for a japanese feel. I especially liked the detailed garden sketch at the end of the book showing an example of what to plant where. I would have assumed much fewer plants from the pictures than what the author sketched in. This will come in extremely helpfully come planting time!
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
The Fundamental of Building Japanese Garden!Jun 11, 2007
This book shows how to use essential elements such as rocks, plants, laterns, and boulders etc., within a space. The diagrams in the book illustrated how to use those elements to balance and compensate each other and make your garden looks much bigger and more appealing to the viewers.
A great book to read before you start your weekend garden project. This book will give you inspiration and give your spirit alift. I built my Japanese Rock Garden after reading this book and other book that I bought "Ortho's All About Creating Japanese Gardens". A great garden will add value to your home so did my garden -- a friend of mine who is a realestate appraiser told me that I must added about $30,000 to my property although I spent only about $5000 on the materials.
Highly recommanded for anyone who are interested about Japanese Garden or do it youself gardener!!!!!
32 of 32 found the following review helpful:
Just what you needAug 02, 2005
The title of this book is a bit misleading, in that it does not offer tips on adding a "Japanese touch" to your existing garden, but rather goes about explaining how to create a Japanese-style garden in the space available to you. In this manner, it is an extremely capable guide and leaves you with the confidence that you can accomplish building your own Japanese-style garden.
"A Japanese Touch for Your Garden" tells both the basic elements of a Japanese garden; rocks, plants, water, artificial elements, and also provides a blueprint for laying out and constructing a garden using these elements. Although packed with lovely pictures, the book is straight-forward and bare-boned, giving you the essentials of what you need. The authors briefly touches upon garden philosophy and such, but acknowledges that there are other, thicker books for the esoteric matters and they will focus on the practical.
The different sections of the book deal with things such as stone lanterns, bamboo fences, bridges, plants and trees...basically everything you will need. The focus is one how to select and use these available elements for the existing space you have to work with, and how to maximize them for the effect you want to achieve. The rear of the book also contains a guide of Japanese gardens in the US that you can visit, and suppliers of the various items you may want for your garden.
An excellent book, it is exactly what you need if there is a spare portion of your house or yard where you would like to put a Japanese garden. For a more deeper, spiritual look at Japanese gardens, look elsewhere. But to be inspired and begin construction on your own "World in Miniature," this is the place to start.
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