In detailing the affair between a garden designer and his client\'s wife, this Japanese novel explores the roots of passion.
In 1961 he was awarded the Naoki Prize for Fiction..
A resident of Kamakura, he wrote novels and short stories, as well as a collection of essays on the Japanese garden.
About author(s): Tachihara (1926-1980) was born the son of a Zen priest in Taegu, Korea, and grew up studying the arts of medieval Japan, expecially literature and the Noh theater.
In detailing the affair between a garden designer and his client\'s wife, this Japanese novel explores the roots of passion