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Of Arcs and Circles: Insights from Japan on Gardens, Nature, and Art

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From his vantage point as a garden designer and writer based in Kyoto, Marc Peter Keane examines the world around him and delivers astonishing insights through an array of narratives. How the names of gardens reveal their essential meaning. A new definition of what art is. What trees are really made of. The true meaning of the enigmatic torii gate found at Shinto shrines. Why we give flowers as gifts. The essential, underlying unity of the world.

ISBN-13: 9781611720723

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Stone Bridge Press

Publication Date: 02-08-2022

Pages: 200

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)

Garden designer and writer Marc Peter Keane has made Kyoto his home for 20 years. Among his books are the essay collection The Art of Setting Stones, and the designer’s idea-book Japanese Garden Notes. His gardens have been published many times, including in Architectural Digest, Landscape Architecture, and Martha Stewart magazine.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Magnitudes

The name of the willow

Wild in the city

Interfaces

Karesansui

Of arcs and circles

Little secrets everywhere

Flowers

Art

Confluences

Wind in the trees

Waste not

Dissolving

Dream garden

Unity

Symmetry

Rivers of the mind

The last god

Paths

Subtleties

On torii gates

Wheels turning

A garden by any other name

Emptiness