"Bring the art and beauty of Japan to your garden with inspiration from Kyoto Gardens." --HGTV Gardens Featuring beautiful Japanese garden photography and insightful writing, Kyoto Gardens is a labor of love from master photographer Ben Simmons and Kyoto-based writer Judith Clancy.
Its 30 detailed walks through.
Exploring Kyoto: On Foot in the Ancient Capital went beyond the usual guidebook.
Her first publication, Naturescapes, was a tribute to her Ikebana teacher, Tamura Suiko, who, through the art of flower arrangement, instilled a deep and subtle appreciation of Japanese aesthetics and character.
About the Author: Judith Clancy has lived in Kyoto for more than 40 years, writing and teaching about Japanese culture.
Journey to Kyoto\'s thirty gardens with just a turn of a page, or use the handy maps to plan your trip.
Combining wonder and rigor, she describes how Kyoto\'s most beloved gardens remain faithful to their founders\' creative spirit and conception.
Clancy\'s graceful text provides historical, aesthetic and cultural context to the Japanese gardens.
Their beauty is enhanced and humanized by gardeners tending the grounds using the tools of their art.
In Kyoto Gardens Simmons\' photographs present a fresh and contemporary look at Kyoto\'s most important gardens.
Today, Kyoto\'s gardens display an enormous range of forms--from rock gardens display of extreme minimalism and subtle hues, to stroll gardens of luscious proportions and vibrant colors.
A class of professional gardeners eventually emerged, transforming Japanese landscape design into a formalized art.
Japanese aristocrats created these gardens to display not just wealth and power, but cultural sensitivity and an appreciation for transcendent beauty.
These varied landscapes meld the sensuality of nature with the disciplines of cosmology, poetry and meditation.
In their rocks and plants, empty spaces and intimate details--Kyoto\'s gardens manifest a unique ability to provoke thought and delight in equal measure. "Bring the art and beauty of Japan to your garden with inspiration from Kyoto Gardens." --HGTV Gardens Featuring beautiful Japanese garden photography and insightful writing, Kyoto Gardens is a labor of love from master photographer Ben Simmons and Kyoto-based writer Judith Clancy
