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САД КАМНЕЙ«Shunmyo Masuno, Japans leading garden designer, is at once Japans most highly acclaimed landscape architect and an 18th-generation Zen Buddhist priest, presiding over daily ceremonies at the Kenkoji Temple in Yokohama. He is celebrated for his unique ability to blend strikingly contemporary elements with the traditional design vernacular. He has worked in ultramodern urban hotels and in some of Japans most famous classic gardens. In each project, his work as a designer is inseparable from his Buddhist practice. Each becomes a Zen garden, «a special spiritual place where the mind dwells.» This beautiful book, illustrated with more than 400 drawings and color photographs, is the first complete retrospective of Masunos work to be published in English. It presents 37 major gardens around the world in a wide variety of types and settings: traditional and contemporary, urban and rural, public spaces and private residences, and including temple, office, hotel and campus venues. Masuno achieved fame for his work in Japan, but he is becoming increasingly known internationally, and in 2011 completed his first commission in the United States which is shown here. The book, divided i

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Author

Mira Locher, Uchida Shigeru

Publisher

Tuttle Publishing

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781462910496

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Technology, Philosophy, Gardening

Rating

4.32 / 5 (31 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14