A Study of a New Type of Karesansui Garden

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  • Tschumi Christian
    Kyoto University, Graduate School of Agriculture, Laboratory of Landscape Architecture

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  • 枯山水庭園の新様式に関する研究
  • Study of a New Type of Karesansui Garden

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For centuries the karesansui garden had mainly been a symbolic representation of the natural landscape. Then the Kyoto artist and scholar Shigemori Mirei (1896-1975) set out to explore ways to transform this traditional Japanese Garden type. His background as a painter allowed him to see several new ways to do so. Shigemori introduced lines, shapes and colors to the karesansui garden. Also he departed from the usual reference to a historical or natural landscape and based some of his new gardens on a story or the images a place’s name evokes. The result is a new type of karesansui garden.

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