Last Installment of Real Japanese Gardens' Popular Garden Book Series About Japanese Stone Lanterns in the Imperial Gardens of Kyoto Released
After Katsura Imperial Villa and Sento Imperial Palace, the e-book series about Kyoto’s Imperial gardens ends with a picture ebook about the three Japanese gardens of Shugaku-in Rikyu.
Tokyo, Japan, May 09, 2013 --(PR.com)-- The garden design team Keizo Hayano of Niwashyu in Shibuya and Jenny Feuerpeil from Dendron Exterior Design in Berlin and San Francisco co-author e-books on their website "Real Japanese Gardens". In early may they released the last installment of their series about Japanese stone lanterns as an important design element in the Japanese Garden.
These books are an important addition to the current Japanese garden literature. They include more than 50 quality pictures of over 15 different types of garden lanterns. Focusing on a single element of the Japanese garden culture, the authors research the topic in depth using English as well as Japanese garden literature. Following the garden paths of the three remaining Imperial Gardens in Kyoto, they inform in their garden e-books about the history and meaning of the ishidoro – the Japanese term for stone lantern.
Keizo Hayano, designer of modern Japanese gardens says: "Nowadays, in the age of electricity, we look at garden illumination differently than people over thousand years ago. Stone lanterns have been an integral element of Japanese gardens since the Asuka period (538-710), when the first lanterns arrived from China and Korea. Since then they have evolved from being a mere illumination to a common sight in Japanese shrines and temples with spiritual meaning. But they were also used for entertaining guests in the garden. During the Heian period (794-1185), when nighttime boating parties in pond gardens were en vogue, they must have also served as decorative garden item as well as lighting.”
His counterpart, young female garden designer Jenny Feuerpeil adds: “For me, taking pictures of the Japanese tea gardens within the grounds of the palace gardens was a most interesting learning experience. Tea masters in Kyoto of the Muromachi period (1337-1573) incorporated them in their garden designs to lighten the way for the guests of a tea ceremony. First, they bought recycled stone lanterns from Japanese temples and shrines, later stone masons copied popular models for the use in the garden. Since tea gardens are usually small in size, every garden designer can learn a lot from the old Japanese garden masters about designing small gardens.”
About the team:
Providing reliable information to the readers of "Real Japanese Gardens" is the design team’s highest priority. Before writing an e-book, they visit the garden in person and take photos of the garden and its features. Up to 80% of the research is done using Japanese resources (books, journals and interviews) to stay as close to the Japanese garden tradition as possible.
Keizo Hayano is a Japanese garden designer with 20 years of experience under his belt. He is the owner and head designer of the garden design studio Niwashyu in Shibuya, Tokyo (www.niwashyu.jp). He studied the fine arts at the Kyoto City College of Arts and loves small intimate gardens that soothe the soul. Member of the Japanese Association of Garden Designers.
Jenny is a German garden designer who came to Japan hoping to soak up the essence of Japanese design. After leaving her job at a global IT company, she studied garden design in Chelsea, London and founded the garden design label Dendron Exterior Design (www.dendronexteriordesign.com).
In 2010, she decided to go to Japan to learn the Japanese garden tradition first hand as an apprentice in a garden maintenance company near Tokyo. She loves the rough texture of natural materials, the boldness of stone arrangements and dry landscape gardens.
The international design team agrees: “We love Japanese Gardens. And we want the world to know more about Real Japanese gardens.”
These books are an important addition to the current Japanese garden literature. They include more than 50 quality pictures of over 15 different types of garden lanterns. Focusing on a single element of the Japanese garden culture, the authors research the topic in depth using English as well as Japanese garden literature. Following the garden paths of the three remaining Imperial Gardens in Kyoto, they inform in their garden e-books about the history and meaning of the ishidoro – the Japanese term for stone lantern.
Keizo Hayano, designer of modern Japanese gardens says: "Nowadays, in the age of electricity, we look at garden illumination differently than people over thousand years ago. Stone lanterns have been an integral element of Japanese gardens since the Asuka period (538-710), when the first lanterns arrived from China and Korea. Since then they have evolved from being a mere illumination to a common sight in Japanese shrines and temples with spiritual meaning. But they were also used for entertaining guests in the garden. During the Heian period (794-1185), when nighttime boating parties in pond gardens were en vogue, they must have also served as decorative garden item as well as lighting.”
His counterpart, young female garden designer Jenny Feuerpeil adds: “For me, taking pictures of the Japanese tea gardens within the grounds of the palace gardens was a most interesting learning experience. Tea masters in Kyoto of the Muromachi period (1337-1573) incorporated them in their garden designs to lighten the way for the guests of a tea ceremony. First, they bought recycled stone lanterns from Japanese temples and shrines, later stone masons copied popular models for the use in the garden. Since tea gardens are usually small in size, every garden designer can learn a lot from the old Japanese garden masters about designing small gardens.”
About the team:
Providing reliable information to the readers of "Real Japanese Gardens" is the design team’s highest priority. Before writing an e-book, they visit the garden in person and take photos of the garden and its features. Up to 80% of the research is done using Japanese resources (books, journals and interviews) to stay as close to the Japanese garden tradition as possible.
Keizo Hayano is a Japanese garden designer with 20 years of experience under his belt. He is the owner and head designer of the garden design studio Niwashyu in Shibuya, Tokyo (www.niwashyu.jp). He studied the fine arts at the Kyoto City College of Arts and loves small intimate gardens that soothe the soul. Member of the Japanese Association of Garden Designers.
Jenny is a German garden designer who came to Japan hoping to soak up the essence of Japanese design. After leaving her job at a global IT company, she studied garden design in Chelsea, London and founded the garden design label Dendron Exterior Design (www.dendronexteriordesign.com).
In 2010, she decided to go to Japan to learn the Japanese garden tradition first hand as an apprentice in a garden maintenance company near Tokyo. She loves the rough texture of natural materials, the boldness of stone arrangements and dry landscape gardens.
The international design team agrees: “We love Japanese Gardens. And we want the world to know more about Real Japanese gardens.”
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+1-415-513-6106
www.japanesegardens.jp
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