A Study on the Characteristics of the Early Chinese Gardens Based upon the Excavation Results

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  • Jin Bailian
    Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies Kyoto University

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  • 発掘調査成果から見た中国初期庭園の特徴
  • ハックツ チョウサ セイカ カラ ミタ チュウゴク ショキ テイエン ノ トクチョウ

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The previous researches on the early Chinese gardens, which were constructed from the Shang(商) Dynasty to the Han(漢) Dynasty, tried to restore the images of those gardens mainly based upon the analysis of related historical records and the remaining gardens of the Ming(明) and Qing(清) periods, inversely deducing that the early Chinese gardens should also highly consider natural designs which is the same as those later ones. But this study tried to analyze the style of the early Chinese gardens based upon their excavation results, and conducted a cross-comparison between those excavation results and related records or drawings of that time. As a result, this study inferred three conclusions: first, the main stream style of the early Chinese gardens was the geometric designs which highly considered artificial beauties and orders; second, the ponds of trisquare shape were the privileges of the imperial gardens; third, the early Chinese gardens had their own origin of geometric shaped ponds.

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  • Nippon Teien Gakkaishi

    Nippon Teien Gakkaishi 2015 (29), 29_1-29_21, 2015

    The Academic Society of Japanese Garden

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