‘Kaso-sho’, Textbook of House Aspects (Art of Divination), and ‘Kichi or Kyo’(good or ill luck) of Landscape Gardening in the late Edo Period

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  • 江戸後期の家相書と庭造りの吉凶
  • エド コウキ ノ カソウショ ト ニワツクリ ノ キッキョウ

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We can understand that publications of garden design books, such as Tsukiyama teizoden by Kitamura, E. in 1735 and Tsukiyama teizoden kohen by Akisato, R. in 1828, substantiate prosperity of common landscape gardening in the late Edo period.<BR>Many haso-sho (textbook of house aspects) had been published from 1780s to 1860s, some of which touched upon landscape gardening, especially about trees, ponds and tuhiyama (artficial hill). The commom people of Edo had needed presentative models depending on kaso, originally based on the ancient Chinese theories of yin and yang, for making a garden or a house. In a sence kaso-ka had made standards of judgement connected with landscape gardening. We must pay special attentions in mind to the popularity of kaso among common people in those days.

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