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The Japanese Tea Garden by Mark Peter Keane
The Japanese Tea Garden by Mark Peter Keane
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The Japanese Tea Garden
Contributor(s): Keane, Marc Peter (Author)
Award-winning Japanese landscape architect Marc Peter Keane traces the history and design of tea gardens from T'ang China to present day.
Almost every Japanese garden is influenced by the tea garden. Drawing on his impressive career of garden construction across the United States and Japan, Marc Peter Keane describes the history, design, and aesthetics of tea gardens, from T'ang China to the present day, with over 115 stunning photographs, floor plans, and illustrations. The most extensive book on this genre ever published in English, The Japanese Tea Garden is a rich resource for garden lovers, historians, and landscape architects.
Marc lived in Japan for 20 years, designing gardens for individuals, companies, and temples. He has written 3 other books on Japanese garden design. Affiliated with Research Center for Japanese Garden Art at Columbia Univ. and the East Asian Program at Cornell Univ.
