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Gardens of Awakening : A Guide to the Aesthetics, History, and Spirituality of Kyoto's Zen Landscapes - Kazuaki Tanahashi

Gardens of Awakening

A Guide to the Aesthetics, History, and Spirituality of Kyoto's Zen Landscapes

By: Kazuaki Tanahashi, Mitsue Nagase (Photographer)

eBook | 23 April 2024

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Renowned artist Kaz Tanahashi reveals the deep, inner spiritual connections that Zen gardens can foster, with over 75 stunning full-color photos of the masterpiece gardens of Ky?to, Japan.

Imagine yourself in Ky?to, Japan, gazing at an ancient temple garden. How would you contextualize what you are seeing? What is the history of this centuries-old contemplative art form of Zen gardening? What are its symbols and concepts?

Richly illustrated with full-color photographs, Gardens of Awakening guides you through a series of Zen temple gardens, most of which were created from the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries. Some are teeming with plants and flowing water, while others have only rocks and sand. All share in the Zen aesthetics of awakening.

Through essays and commentary on Mitsue Nagase's striking photographs, beloved Zen artist and translator Kazuaki Tanahashi presents the gardens in terms of seven qualities that arise from Zen practice: direct, ordinary, vigorous, gleaming, pivotal, nondual, and inexhaustible. Relating these qualities to the development of Zen culture and its influence on Japanese art, Gardens of Awakening invites you deep into the heart of Zen.

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