Conversations with Hiromasa Amasaki, Makoto Akasaka, Myōkyū Fujisato, Kenji Kaji, Tomoki Kato, Yasuhiko Mitani, Masatoshi Nishiyama, Eiichi Noda, Syuchi Oguni, Keiko Torigoe, Zentarō Yagasaki These twelve conversations aim to place Japanese gardens into broader contexts: the arts, sciences, political history, cultural and social change, religions. The teachings of a garden are expressed in the recurring attempt to establish harmony—harmony between nature and art, the real and the spiritual world, past and present. This book does not idealize the garden as an object of aesthetic or spiritual contemplation but is a social compendium that presents a society’s underlying order. The art historian and cultural scientist Carola Platzek spoke with gardeners and garden historians, a sound researcher as well as a Buddhist priest and a Shintō priest about their work with traditional and modern concepts that shape Japanese design.weiterlesen