Japanese Gardening in Small Spaces (Hardcover)

~ Isao Yoshikawa (Author) "Tsuboniwa or small gardens can be made in spaces of one tsubo, or thirty six square feet..." (more)
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Product Description

A practical guide to planning and constructing a Japanese garden at home. Step-by-step instructions explain every facet, from displaying plants and rocks to mastering drainage and lighting to creating bamboo fences and hedges.

About the Author

ISAO YOSHIKAWA was born in 1940 in Tokyo. Having gained a degree in architecture from Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, he expanded his career as a keen and creative garden designer, and established the Japan Garden Society in 1963. Besides representing this society and his own laboratory, Yoshikawa Isao Garden Research Institute, he sits on the executive board of the China Landscape Architects Society in both Suzhou and Hangzhou as an honorary member. He has written numerous books on gardening including THE BAMBOO FENCES OF JAPAN, STONE ARANGEMENT GARDENS, RESEARCH DATA FOR GARDENING DETAILS and EXCELLENT GARDENS OF CHINA (some of them published only in Japanese).

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Japan Publications Trading (September 15, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0870409778
• ISBN-13: 978-0870409776
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 8.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #236,582 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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117 of 118 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good book to add to your Japanese garden reference library, May 2, 1999

By	[e-mail] Rod Dubois (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

I purchased this book in Tokyo after falling in love with Japanese gardens. Things I like about it includewide content of overview of visual examples of gardens, examples of lanterns, water basins, stepping stones and materials and tools for use in building a garden. Also there are plans for pictured gardens. A disadvantage was that a great amount of space was devoted to bamboo fences/building. Another good book is "A Japanese Touch For Your Garden", K. Seike, M Kudo, D. Engel

33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Manual, October 9, 2001

By	Fernando Cordova Lopez "Vautro" (Chile) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Sorry, my english is no good. I'm a chilean landscaper and I bought this book about 2 month ago and it can help me in many ways for my job. Have a lot of details of how to do fences and other triks with good photos.

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AUTHENTIC AND INSPIRATIONAL, October 7, 2005

By	M. Ellis (Ashland, Oregon) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I picked up about ten books on Japanese gardening at the library and this book was by far the most inspirational. The author gives definitions for technical terms and also shows step by step illustrations to recreate various photographs within the book. He also shows how to make a bamboo fence which I thought was really neat and I am actually going to give it a try. This is the only book I decided to purchase out of the lot from the library and I plan on giving a few copies as gifts.