{"product_id":"zen-gardens-the-complete-works-of-shunmyo-masuno-japans-leading-garden-designer-hardcover","title":"Zen Gardens: The Complete Works of Shunmyo Masuno Japan's Leading Garden Designer - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMira Locher\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eUchida Shigeru\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShunmyo Masuno, Japan's leading garden designer, is at once Japan's 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 some of Japan's most famous classic gardens. In each project, his work as a designer of landscape architecture is inseparable from his Buddhist practice. Each becomes a Zen garden, \"a special spiritual place where the mind dwells.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis beautiful book, illustrated with more than 400 drawings and color photographs, is the first complete retrospective of Masuno's 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eZen Gardens\u003c\/i\u003e, divided into three chapters, covers: \"Traditional Zen Gardens,\" \"Contemporary Zen Gardens\" and \"Zen Gardens outside Japan.\" Each Zen garden design is described and analyzed by author Mira Locher, herself an architect and a scholar well versed in Japanese culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCelebrating the accomplishments of an influential, world-class designer, \u003ci\u003eZen Gardens\u003c\/i\u003e also serves as something of a master class in Japanese garden design and appreciation: how to perceive a Japanese garden, how to understand one, even how to make one yourself. Like one of Masuno's gardens, the book can be a place for contemplation and mindful repose.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMira Locher\u003c\/b\u003e is an architect and professor who works in the U.S. and Japan. She studied at Smith College before receiving her Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania. After working for Team Zoo Atelier Mobile in Japan for seven years, she set up an architectural practice in the U.S. with Takayuki Murakami. Mira Locher is Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Manitoba (Canada). She is the author of \u003ci\u003eSuper Potato Design, Zen Gardens\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eZen Garden Design\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.4 x 10.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 10, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769720635680,"sku":"9784805311943","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/56ab5f024693b5a0db7d8c85047ca8e5.webp?v=1780354543","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/zen-gardens-the-complete-works-of-shunmyo-masuno-japans-leading-garden-designer-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}