HISTORY OF GARDENS IN EAST ASIA: Bibliography Japan

The following bibliography lists studies (mostly in Western languages) on the history and appreciation of gardens in Japan in chronological order. For an annotated introductory bibliography go to Professor Olds' website, The Japanese Garden.

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1885

1892

  • Conder, Josiah. The Flowers of Japan and the Art of Floral Arrangement. Tokyo: Hakubunsha, and Londomn: Kelly and Walsh, 1892 (second edition 1899, The Floral Art of Japan). Reprinted in 2019 by Routledge.

  • Hearn, Lafcadio. "In the Japanese Garden." Atlantic Monthly 70, issue 417 (July 1892), 14-33.

1893

  • Conder, Josiah. Landscape Gardening in Japan. Tokyo: Kelly and Walsh, 1893 (numerous reprints). The second edition appeared in 1912. It is available online as Landscape Gardening of Japan, 1912, Tom Turner ed., Gardenvisit.com: The Garden and Landscape Guide.

1896

  • Patton, Emily S. Japanese Topsyturvydom. Japan: T. Hasegawa, 1896.

1902

  • Brown, Glenn, K. Honda, J. G. Howard, R. G. Sturgis, and A. D. F. Hamlin. European and Japanese Gardens: Papers Read Before the American Institute of Architects. Philadelphia: H. T. Coates, 1902.

1908

  • Du Cane, Florence, and Ella Du Cane. The Flowers and Gardens of Japan. London: Adam &: Charles, 1908. Reprint: Routledge 2003.

1910

  • Usui, Kosaburo. Historical Gardens in Kyoto. Kyoto: Unso do, 1910.

1912

  • Taylour, Harriet O, and Walter Tyndale. Japanese Gardens. London: Methuen, 1912 (2nd ed., 1928).

1916

  • Shiota, Takeo. Japanese Gardens and Houses. New York: Alexander Press, 1916.

1928

  • Harada, Jiro. The Gardens of Japan. London: The Studio limited, 1928 (rpt. Boston: Branford Co., 1956; London; New York: Kegan Paul, 2002). Also available online as Gardens of Japan, 1928, Tom Turner ed., Gardenvisit.com: The Garden and Landscape Guide.

1930

  • Cram, Ralph Adams. Impressions of Japanese Architecture and the Allied Arts. Boston: Marshall Jones Co, 1930.

1935

  • Lee, Guy Hunter. Japanese Gardens. Boston: Priv. Print., J.A. Dover, 1935.

  • Tamura, Tsuyoshi. Art of the Landscape Garden in Japan. Tokyo: Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, 1935.

1937

  • Newsom, Samuel. Japanese Gardens. Tokyo: Kokusai Bunka Shinkoukai, 1937.

1939

  • Newsom, Samuel. Japanese Garden Construction. Tokyo: Published under the Auspices of Domoto, Kumagawa and Perkins, 1939.

1945

  • Nihon Bunka Chôû Renmei. Architecture and Gardens. Tokyo: Nihon Bunka Chôû Renmei, 1945 (revised edition, Tokyo National Museum, 1957).

1947

  • Warner, Langdon. Japanese Gardens. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Society for Japanese Studies, 1947.

1949

  • Tatsui, Matsunosuke. Japanese Gardens. Japan Travel Bureau, 1949.

1953

  • Lancaster, Clay. "Japanese Buildings in the United States before 1900: Their Influence upon American Domestic Architecture," The Art Bulletin, Vol. 35, No. 3 (1953), 217-224.

  • Newsom, Samuel. A Thousand Years of Japanese Gardens. Tokyo: Tokyo News Service, 1953.

1954

  • Nishimura, Tei. Japanese Garden: Tradition of the Japanese Garden. Tokyo: Shuppan-sha, 1954.

  • Woollard, Leslie. Japanese and Miniature Gardens. London: F. Muller, 1954.

1955

  • Koehn, Alfred. Japanese Floral Arts: Flower Arrangements, Tray Landscapes, Gardens. Tokyo: At the Lotus Court, 1955.

  • Yoshida, Tetsuro. The Japanese House and Garden. New York: Praeger, 1955.

1957

  • Kuck, Loraine E. Japanese Gardens: A Catalogue of an Exhibition from Japan. Eugene: University of Oregon Museum of Art, 1957.

  • Shigemori, Kanto. The Artistic Gardens of Japan: History of Japanese Gardens. Translated by Thomas Hatashita. Tokyo: Rikotosho Co, 1957.

  • Yoshida, Tetsuro. Gardens of Japan. Translated by Marcus G. Sims. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1957.

1958

  • Tono, Takuma. A Secret of Japanese Gardens. Tokyo: M. Onizuka, 1958.

1961

  • Ishibashi, Shojiro, and Kozan H. Saito. Japanese Landscape Gardens Laid Out by Shojiro Ishibashi. Tokyo: Bridgestone Gallery, 1961.

  • Saito, Katsuo. Designing Japanese Gardens. Translated by Shinjiro Hiki. Tokyo: Gohodo, 1961.

1962

  • Mori, Osamu. Typical Japanese Gardens. Translated by Atsuo Tsuruoka. Tokyo: Shibata Pub. Co.; [distributors: Japan Publications Trading Co., Rutland, Vt], 1962.

  • Okamoto, Toyo [Photographer]. Gardens of Japan. Japanese text by Gisei Takakuwa; English translation by Hirokuni Kobatake. Kyoto: Mitumura Suiko Shoin Co., 1970 printing, c1962.

  • Ono, Sokyo. Shinto: The Kami Way. Rutland, VT; Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1962.

  • Tradition of Japanese Garden. Tokyo: Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, 1962.

1963

  • Alex, William. Japanese Architecture. New York: George Braziller, 1963.

  • Wigginton, Brooks E. Japanese Gardens. Marietta, Ohio: Marietta College, 1963.

1964

  • Saito, Katsuo and Sadaji Wada. Trees and Stones: Secrets of Japanese Gardening. New York; San Francisco; Tokyo: Japan Publications Trading Company, 1964.

1965

  • Horiguchi, Sutemi, and Yuichiro Kojiro. Tradition of Japanese Garden. Tokyo: Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, 1965.

  • Kidder, J. Edward. Japanese Temples: Sculpture, Paintings, Gardens and Architecture. London: Thames and Hudson, 1965.

  • Yoshinaga, Yoshinobu. Japanese Traditional Gardens. Tokyo: The Shokokusha Publishing Co, 1965.

1966

  • Kincaid, Viola W. Japanese Garden and Floral Art. New York: Hearthside Press, 1966.

1968

  • Ishimoto, Tatsuo, and Kiyoko Ishimoto. Japanese Gardens Today; How the Japanese Use Rocks, Water, Plants. New York: Crown Publishers, 1968.

  • Kuck, Loraine E. The World of the Japanese Garden: From Chinese Origins to Modern Landscape Art. New York: Weatherhill, 1968.

  • Murphy, Gardner and Louise B. Murphy, eds. "A Zen Training Session," in Asian Psychology. New York and London: Basic Books, 1968.

1970

  • Dodd, Jeremy. "Landscape and Water: Japanese Gardens," Architectural Review 148 (August 1970): 115-121.

  • Ito, Teiji and Takeji Iwamiya [Photographer]. Imperial Gardens of Japan: Sento Gosho, Katsura, Shugaku-in. New York: Weatherhill, 1970.

  • Nakane, Kinsaku. "Zen and Japanese gardens,"Chanoyu Quarterly 1:4 (Winter 1970): 43-47.

1971

  • Fujino, Junko. "The Beautiful Heart of Stones: Sekitei (Stone Gardens)," East 7:7 (July/August 1971): 10-16.

  • Nakane, Kinsaku. "The Character and Development of the Tea Garden," Chanoyu Quarterly (Kyoto) 2:1 (Spring 1971): 43-49.

  • Roger, Alan. "Bonsai and the Pleasure of Collecting," Japan Society of London Bulletin (London) 4:12 (October 1971): 4-6.

  • Yoshimura, Yuji and Giovannia M. Halford. The Japanese Art of Miniature Trees and Landscapes: Their Creation, Care, and Enjoyment. Tokyo; Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1971.

1972

  • Ito, Teiji and Takeji Iwamiya [Photographer]. The Japanese Garden: An Approach to Nature. Translated by Donald Richie. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972 (second edition Tokyo: Zokeisha, 1978).

  • Ota, Hirotaro. Traditional Japanese Architecture and Gardens. Yokohama: Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai [Japan Cultural Society], 1972.

1973

  • Hayakawa, Masao. The Garden Art of Japan. Translated by Richard Gage. New York; Tokyo: Weatherhill/Heibonsha, 1973.

  • Ito, Teiji. Space and Illusion in the Japanese Garden. New York; Tokyo; Kyoto: Weatherhill/Tankosha, 1973.

  • Shigemori, Mirei. Nihon teienshi taikei [Compendium of Japanese Garden History]. Thirty-five volumes. Tokyo: Shakai Shisosha, 1973-6.

  • Takakuwa, Gisei, and Kiichi Asano. Japanese Gardens Revisited. Rutland, Vt: C.E. Tuttle Co, 1973. (Revision of: Takakuwa, Gisei, and Kiichi Asano. Invitation to Japanese Gardens. Rutland, Vt: Tuttle, 1970.)

  • Watanabe, Yasutada. Shinto Art: Ise and Izumo Shrines. New York; Tokyo: Weatherhill/Heibonsha, 1973.

1974

  • Ishihara, Tanso and Gloria Wickham. Hakone Garden. Kyoto: Kawara Shoten, 1974.

  • Macadam, Joseph P., and Tatsusaburo Hayashiya. Japanese Arts and the Tea Ceremony. New York: Weatherhill, 1974.

1975

  • Sekida, Katsuki. Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy. New York; Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1975.

1978

  • Holborn, Mark. The Ocean in the Sand: Japan, from Landscape to Garden. Boulder: Shambhala, 1978.

1979

  • Murphy, Wendy B. Japanese Gardens. Alexandria: Time-Life Books, 1979.

  • Schaarschmidt-Richter, Irmtraud. Japanese Gardens. New York: W. Morrow, 1979.

1980

  • Treib, Marc. "Making the Edo Garden,"in Landscape 1 (1980) 24-29.

1981

  • Bring, Mitchell and Josse Wayemberg. Japanese Gardens: Design and Meaning. New York: McGraw Hill, 1981.

  • Chamberlain, Basil Hall (trans.). The Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters. Rutland, VT; Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle, 1981.

  • Covell, Jon Carter. "Ryoan-ji: Music of Form and Formless," Asian and Pacific Quarterly of Cultural and Social Affairs 13:3 (Winter 1981): 1-9.

  • Dove, Victor. "Ritsurin Koen: A Japanese Garden," Orientations 12:7 (July 1981): 42-49.

  • Fleig-Harbauer, Gisela. Der japanische Garten: Wege zu moderner Gestaltung. München, Wien, Zürich: BLV-Verlagsgesellschaft, 1981.

  • Shigemori, Kanto, and Katsuhiko Mizuno. The Japanese Courtyard Garden: Landscapes for Small Spaces. New York: Weatherhill, 1981.

  • Vance, Mary. The Gardens of Japan: A Bibliography. Monticello, Ill: Vance Bibliographies, 1981.

1982

  • Covell, Jon Carter. "Essentials of Japanese Tea Gardens," Asian and Pacific Quarterly of Cultural and Social Affairs 14:3 (Autumn 1982): 39-52.

  • Fujioka, Michio. Japanese Residences and Gardens: A Tradition of Integration. Photographs by Kazunori Tsunenari; translated by H. Mack Horton. Tokyo; New York: Kodansha International; Distributed in the U.S. by Kodansha International/USA through Harper & Row, 1982.

  • Hennig, Karl. Der Karesansui-Garten als Ausdruck der Kultur der Muromachi-Zeit. Hamburg: Gesellschaft für Natur- und Völkerkunde Ostasiens, 1982.

1983

  • Lancaster, Clay. The Japanese Influence in America. New York: Abbeville Press, 1983.

  • Nishi, Kazuo, and Kazuo Hozumi. What is Japanese Architecture? Tokyo; New York: Kodansha International, 1983.

1984

  • Covello, Vincent T. and Yuji Yoshimura. The Japanese Art of Stone Appreciation: Suiseki and its Use with Bonsai. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1984.

  • Varley, H. Paul. Japanese Culture. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1984.

1985

  • Harada, Jiro, and C. Geoffrey Holme. The Lesson of Japanese Architecture. New York: Dover, 1985.

1986

  • Ohashi, Haruzo [Photographer]. The Japanese Garden: Islands of Serenity. Tokyo, Japan: Graphic-sha Pub. Co.; New York: Kodansha International/USA through Harper & Row [distributor], 1986.

1987

  • Nakane, Kinsaku. Kyoto Gardens. Translated by Money L. Hickman & Kaichi Minobe. Osaka, Japan: Hoikusha, 1987.

  • Rambach, Pierre and Susanne. Gardens of Longevity in China and Japan. New York: Skira and Rizzoli, 1987.

  • Slawson, David. Secret Teachings in the Art of Japanese Gardens. Tokyo; New York: Kodansha International, 1991 [1987].

  • Winters, Dennis A. "Buddhist Meditation Gardens," Tibet Journal 12:2 (Summer 1987): 41-52.

1988

  • Ohashi, Haruzo [Photographer]. Japanese Courtyard Gardens. Tokyo; New York: Kodansha International, 1988.

  • Williams, W. B. "The Japanese garden and the influence of the West," Japan Society Review 112 (1988-1989): 81-88.

1989

  • Hennig, Karl. "Über den Sogenannten Zen-Garten," Oriens Extremus 32 (1989): 47-50.

  • Hibi, Sadao. Japanese Detail: Traditional Architecture, Gardens, Interiors. London: Thames and Hudson, 1989.

  • Hrdlicka, Z., Venceslava Hrdlickova, and Takashi Sawano, ed. The Art of Japanese Gardening. London: Hamlyn, 1989.

  • Itoh, Teiji and Kenzo Yamamoto. Kyoto Gardens: Seasonal Images in Moss and Stone. Kyoto: Mitsumura Suiko Shoin, 1989.

  • Johnson, Norris Brock. "Geomancy, Sacred Geometry, and the Idea of a Garden: Tenryu-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan," Journal of Garden History 9:1 (Jan-Mar 1989): 1-19.

  • Johnson, Norris Brock. "Japanese Temple Gardens and the Apprentice Training of Priests," in Apprenticeship: From Theory to Method and Back Again. Edited by Michael W. Coy. Albany: SUNY Press, 1989.

  • Ohashi, Haruzo [Photographer]. The Tea Garden. Tokyo: Graphic-sha, 1989.

  • Treib, Marc. "Reduction, Elaboration and Yugen: The Garden of Saiho-ji," Journal of Garden History 9:2 (April-June 1989): 95-101.

  • Tatsui Teien Kenkyujo ed. Modern Japanese Gardens. Tokyo: Kenchiku Shiryo Kenkyusha, 1989.

1990

  • Iwamiya, Takeji. Japanese Gardens: Images, Concepts, Symbolism. Tokyo: Hitachi, 1990.

  • Mizuno, Katsuhiko and Thomas Wright. Zen Gardens: Kyoto's Nature Enclosed. Kyoto: Mitsumura Suiko Shoin, 1990.

  • Sawyers, Claire, and Barbara B. Pesch, ed. Japanese Gardens. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1990.

  • Tatsui, Takenosuke, ed. Stone & Sand Gardens. Tokyo: Kenchiku Shiryo Kenkyusha, 1990.

  • Yoshikawa, Isao. Elements of Japanese Gardens. Tokyo: Graphic-sha Publishing Co, 1990.

  • Yoshimura, Motoo. Creation of Contemporary Japanese Gardens. Tokyo: Process Architecture, 1990.

1991

  • Johnson, Norris Brock. "Garden as Sacred Space," in The Power of Place. Edited by James Swan. Wheaton: Quest Books, 1991.

  • Johnson, Norris Brock. "Zuisen Temple and Garden, Kamakura, Japan: Design Form and Phylogenetic Meaning," Journal of Garden History 10 (1991): 214-236.

  • Suzuki, Hiroyuki. "The Garden of the Shisendo: Its Genius Loci," in Shisendo, Hall of the Poetry Immortals. Edited by J. Thomas Rimer et al. New York: Weatherhill, 1991.

  • Tatsui, Takenosuke, ed. Water & Stream Gardens. Tokyo: Kenchiku Shiryo Kenkyusha, 1991.

  • Tatsui, Takenosuke, ed. Tree & Moss Gardens. Tokyo: Kenchiku Shiryo Kenkyusha, 1991.

  • Yamashita, Michael S. [Photographer]. In the Japanese Garden. Text by Elizabeth Bibb. Washington, DC: Starwood, 1991.

1992

  • Mizuno, Katsuhiko. Masterpieces of Japanese Garden Art. Kyoto, Japan: Kyoto Shoin, 1992.

  • Tanaka, Tan. "Early Japanese Horticultural Treatises and Pure Land Buddhist Style: Sakuteiki and Its Background in Ancient Japan and China," in Garden History: Issues, Approaches, Methods. Edited by John Dixon Hunt. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1992, 79–95.

  • Yoshikawa, Isao. Japanese Stone Gardens. Tokyo: Graphic-sha Publishing Co, 1992.

1993

  • Bertoldi, Cristiana. "Kobori Enshû: vita et opere di un Fûryû Daimyô," in Il Giappone 33 (1993): 27-44.

  • Cortazzi, Hugh. "Gardens of Kyoto," Arts of Asia 23,1 (Jan.-Feb. 1993), 76-86.

  • Graham, Archie. "The Ecological Aesthetic in the Japanese Garden," Asian Culture Quarterly 19:1 (Spring 1991): 30-34.

  • Nitschke, Günter. Japanese Gardens: Right Angle and Natural Form. Köln: Taschen, 1993.

  • Oster, Maggie. Japanese Garden Style: Eastern Traditions in Western Garden Design. London: Cassell, 1993.

1994

  • Harper, Katherine Anne. "“Daiunzan Ryoanji Sekitei: The Stone Garden of the Mountain Dragon's Resting Temple, Soteriology and the Bodhimandala," Pacific World: Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies 10 (Fall 1994): 116-130.

  • Hyman, Harriet. "Zen and the Art of Gardening," in Garden Design (June/July 1994): 53-61.

1995

  • Engel, David H. A Thousand Mountains, a Million Hills: Creating the Rock Work of Japanese Gardens. Tokyo, Japan: Shufunotomo/Japan Publications, 1995.

  • Grotenhuis, Elizabeth ten. "The White Path Crossing Two Rivers: A Contemporary Japanese Garden Represents the Past," Journal of Garden History 15:1 (January-March 1995): 1-18.

  • Shimazaki, Hiroshi T. "Japanese Gardens: Mirrors of Cultural History," in Person, Place, and Thing: Interpretative and Empirical Essays in Cultural Geography. Edited by Shue Tuck Wong. Baton Rouge, LA: Geoscience Publications, 1995.

1996

  • Keane, Marc P. Japanese Garden Design. Rutland, VT: C.E. Tuttle, 1996.

  • Levinson, David. "Buddhism." In Religion: A Cross-Cultural Dictionary. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

  • Mitchell, Emily. "Splendor in the Gravel," Time Magazine, March 4, 1996, 54.

  • Saito, Yuriko. "Japanese Gardens: The Art of Improving Nature," Chanoyu Quarterly 83 (1996): 41-61.

1997

  • Asquith, Pamela J., and Arne Kalland. Japanese Images of Nature: Cultural Perspectives. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1997.

  • Berthier, François. Le Jardin du Ryoanji: Lire le Zen dans les Pierres. Paris: Adam Biro, c1997.

  • Hendry, Joy. "Nature Tamed: Gardens as a Microcosm of Japan's View of the World," in Japanese Images of Nature: Cultural Perspectives. Edited by Pamela J. Asquith and Arne Kalland. Richmond, Surrey, England: Curzon Press, 1997.

  • Vieillart-Baron, Michel (trans. and annot.). De la création des jardins - Traduction du Sakuteiki. Tokyo: Maison Franco-Japonaise, 1997.

  • Vitavsky, Grit. "Representing Ryoan-ji," Journal of Garden History 17:3 (July-September 1997): 221-229.

1998

  • Inaji, Toshiro. The Garden As Architecture: Form and Spirit in the Gardens of Japan, China, and Korea. Tokyo; New York; London: Kodansha International, 1998.

  • Ito, Teiji. The Gardens of Japan. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1998 [c1984].

  • Kuitert, Wybe. "Book review: De la création des jardins - Traduction du Sakuteiki. Translated and annotated by Michel Vieillard-Baron," Monumenta Nipponica 53,2: 292-294.

  • Mather, Cotton, Pradyumna P. Karan, and Shigerur Iijima. Japanese Landscapes: Where Land & Culture Merge. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998.

  • Servomaa, Sonja. "Cranes and Turtles in a Japanese Garden," in Japan: Reflections on the Eastern Mind. Edited by Seija Jalagin, Seija. Oulu: Oulun Yliopisto, 1998.

  • Treib, Marc. "Formal Problems: The Concept of 'Formal' in Garden Design," Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes 18:2 (April-June 1998): 71-92.

1999

  • Borja, Erik. Zen Gardens. London: Ward Lock, 1999.

  • Gustafson, Herb L. The Art of Japanese Gardens. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1999.

  • Johnson, Norris Brock. "A Song of Secret Places," Pilgrimage 25:3-4 (1999): 4-10.

  • Klingsick, Judith D. A Japanese Garden Journey: Through Ancient Stones and Dragon Bones. Owings Mills, Md: Stemmer House Publishers, 1999.

  • Kuitert, Wybe. Japanese Flowering Cherries. Portland, OR: Timber Press, 1999.

2000

  • Albright, Bryan, and Constance Tindale. A Path Through the Japanese Garden. Marlborough: Crowood, 2000.

  • Berque, Augustin. "L'appareillage de l'ici vers l'ailleurs dans les jardins japonais," Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident 22 (2000), 115-123.

  • Berthier, François and Graham Parkes. Reading Zen in the Rocks: The Japanese Dry Landscape Garden. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c2000.

  • Berthier, François. "Les jardins japonais: Principes d'am&nagement et évolution historique," Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident 22 (2000),73-92.

  • Earle, Joe (ed.) Infinite Spaces: The Art and Wisdom of the Japanese Garden. Boston: Tuttle Publishing, 2000.

  • Ito, Taiichi, and Mieko Kawarada. "Environmentalism in Japanese Gardens," in Environmentalism in Landscape Architecture, Michel Conan ed. Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2000.

  • Koren, Leonard. Gardens of Gravel and Sand. Berkeley, Calif: Stone Bridge Press, 2000.

  • Ohashi, Haruzo [Photographer]. Japanese Gardens of the Modern Era. Tokyo: Graphic-sha; New York: Kodansha America through Oxford University Press [distributor], 2000.

  • Vieillard-Baron, Michel. "Les plaisirs enchantés: Célébration, fêtes jeux et joutes poétiques dans les jardins japonais de l'époque de Heian," Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident 22 (2000), 93-114.

  • Wachtmann, Hans Günter. Daisen-in: Ein Zen-Tempel des 16. Jahrhunderts in Kyoto. München: Hirmer, 2000.

2001

  • Di Felice, Paola. Sakuteiki: Annotazioni sulla composizione dei giardini. Firenze: Le lettere, 2001.

  • Ellis, Colin. "Japanese Garden Design," Japan Society Proceedings 137 (Summer 2001): 58-66.

  • Johnson, Norris Brock. "Gardens of the Heart," Parabola 26:1 (2001): 29-35.

  • Keane, Marc. "The Garden Path as a Journey," in Japanese-inspired gardens: adapting Japan's design traditions for your garden, edited by Patricia Jonas, 24-33. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 2001.

  • Ono, Kenkichi, and Walter Edwards eds. Bilingual Dictionary of Japanese Garden Terms. Nara: Kansai Process, 2001. Online as Japanese Garden Dictionary: A Glossary for Japanese Gardens and Their History.

  • Slawson, David. "Authenticity in Japanese Landscape Design," in Japanese-Inspired Gardens: Adapting Japan's Design Traditions for Your Garden, edited by Patricia Jonas, 8-23. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 2001.

  • Takei Jiro and Marc Peter Keane. Sakuteiki: Visions of the Japanese Garden, A Modern Translation of Japan's Gardening Classic. Tokyo: Tuttle, 2001.

2002

  • Houdart, Sophie. "Paysage et Jardin: Un Autre Regard, Japon, Hiver 2001-2002 [seminars]," Ebisu 28 (Spring/Summer 2002): 243-254.

  • Keane, Marc P. The Art of Setting Stones, and other Writings on Japanese Garden. Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press, 2002.

  • Kuitert, Wybe. Themes, Scenes, and Taste in the History of Japanese Garden Art. Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1988. Revised as Kuitert, Wybe, Themes in the History of Japanese Garden Art. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002.

  • Main, Alison and Newell Platten. The Lure of the Japanese Garden. New York: W.W. Norton, 2002.

  • Mizuno, Katsuhiko. Landscapes for Small Gardens: Japanese Courtyard Gardens. Translated by John Bester. Tokyo; New York: Kodansha International, 2002.

  • Nosé, Michiko Rico. The Modern Japanese Garden. Boston: Tuttle Publishing, 2002.

  • Parkes, Graham. "The Eloquent Stillness of Stone: Rock in the Dry Landscape Garden," in Japanese Hermeneutics: Current Debates on Aesthetics and Interpretation. Edited by Michael F. Marra. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2002.

2003

  • Du Cane, Alice Florence. Flowers & Gardens of Japan. Routledge, 2003. Original edition see 1908.

  • Goto, Seiko. The Japanese Garden: Gateway to the Human Spirit. New York: P. Lang, 2003.

  • Goto, Seiko. "The garden of literature in Japan and England," in Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes, 23.3 (September 2003) 276-292.

  • Johnson, Norris Brock. "Mountain, Temple, and the Design of Movement: Thirteenth-Century Japanese Zen Buddhist Landscapes," in Landscape Design and the Experience of Motion. Edited by Michael Conan. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2003.

  • Sand, Jordan. House and Home in Modern Japan: Architecture, Domestic Space, and Bourgeois Culture, 1880-1930. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.

  • Treib, Marc and Ron Herman. A Guide to the Gardens of Kyoto. Tokyo; New York: Kodansha Int'l., 2003.

  • Tschumi, Christian. "A Study of a New Type of Karesansui Garden," [pdf] Journal of the Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture 66 (2003): 413-416.

2004

  • Cali, Joseph, and Satoshi Asakawa. The New Zen Garden: Designing Quiet Spaces. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2004.

  • Jacobs, Peter. "Learning from Saihô-ji: Sustaining a garden tradition," in Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes 24.1 (January 2004): 1-20.

  • Nakane, Kinsaku. "The Japanese Garden for the Mind: The 'Bliss' of Paradise Transcended," Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs 4: 2 (Summer 2004): 83-102.

  • Schaarschmidt-Richter, Irmtraud. "Japanische Gartenarchäologie oder: Ein Teich unterm Reisfeld," Die Gartenkunst 16, 1 (2004), 113-124

2005

  • Goto, Seiko. "The confrontation with Western culture: A new garden style in Kyoto--Murin-an," in Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes, 25.3 (July 2005): 191-201.

  • Hirasawa, Maiko. "A Study on Arrangement of the Garden Lantern in Byodo-in Garden," Randosukepu kenkyu 68, 5 (2005), 365-68.

  • Kuitert, Wybe. "History of the Japanese Garden," in Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Helaine Selin, ed. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2005.

  • Tschumi, Christian. Mirei Shigemori: Modernizing the Japanese Garden. Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press, 2005.

2006

  • Mizuno, Katsuhiko. Courtyard Gardens of Kyoto's Merchant Houses. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2006.

  • Nakane, Shiro. "Structure in the Japanese Garden." The Antioch Review 64, 2 (Spring 2006), 217-20.

  • Tschumi, Christian A. "Between Tradition and Modernity: The Karesansui Gardens of Mirei Shigemori," in Landscape Journal 25 (2006):108-125.

2007

  • Davidson, A. K. A Zen Life in Nature: Musô Soseki in his Gardens. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2007.

  • Hobson, Jake. Niwaki: Pruning, Training and Shaping Trees the Japanese Way. Portland, Or: Timber Press, 2007.

  • Kuitert, Wybe. "Cultural Values and Political Change: Cherry Gardening in Ancient Japan", in Botanical Progress, Horticultural Innovation and Cultural Changes. Michel Conan and Kress W John (eds.). Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium Series 28. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007, 128-145.

  • Masui, Sachimine, and Beatrice Testini. San Sen Sou Moku: Il giardino giapponese nella tradizione e nel mondo contemporaneo. Padua: Casadeilibri, 2007.

  • Tschumi, Christian. Mirei Shigemori, Rebel in the Garden: Modern Japanese Landscape Architecture. Basel and Boston: Birkhäuser, 2007.

2008

  • Freeman, Michael, and Noriko Sakai. Pocket Gardens: Contemporary Japanese Miniature Designs. New York: Universe, 2008.

  • Mehta, Geeta K., Kimie Tada, and Noboru Murata [Photographer]. Japanese Gardens: Tranquility, Simplicity, Harmony. Tokyo: Tuttle Pub, 2008.

  • Mercury Software Japan Inc. Kyoto Gardens: A Virtual Stroll through Zen Landscapes. CD-ROM.

2009

  • Keane, Marc P. The Japanese Tea Garden. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, 2009.

  • Mansfield, Stephen, and Donald Richie. Japanese Stone Gardens: Origins, Meaning, Form. Tokyo: Tuttle Pub, 2009.

  • Vilhar, Gorazd, and Charlotte Anderson. Incomparable Japanese Gardens. Berkeley: Stone Bridge, 2009.

2010

  • Attlee, Helena. The Gardens of Japan. London: Frances Lincoln, 2010.

  • Elisseeff, Danielle. Jardins japonais. Paris: Editions Scala, 2010.

  • Havens, Thomas R. H. Parkscapes: Green Spaces in Modern Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2010.

  • Seki, Akihiko, and Thomas Daniell. Houses and Gardens of Kyoto. Tokyo: Tuttle Pub, 2010.

  • Ogata, Takayuki, Wei Li, and Shôji Yamada. "A Mapping and Geographical Analysis of Japanese Gardens in the Kyoto Basin," in Japan Review 22 (2010): 213-221.

2011

  • Mitani, Toru. "Moonlight in Japanese Zen Buddhist Temple Gardens: An Analytical Simulation." Journal of Landscape Architecture 6, 1 (2011), 46-53.

  • Young, David, and Michiko Young. Art of the Japanese Garden. Boston, USA: Tuttle, 2011.

2012

  • Hunt, John Dixon. "Japanese Gardens and their Legacy to the West," in John Dixon Hunt, A World of Gardens. London: Reaktion Books, 2012, 277-292.

  • Johnson, Norris Brock. Tenryu-ji: Life and Spirit of a Kyoto Garden. Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, 2012.

  • Keane, Marc Peter. Songs in the Garden: Poetry and Gardens in Ancient Japan. MPK books, 2012.

  • Locher, Mira, ed. Zen Gardens: The Complete Works of Shunmyo Masuno, Japan's Leading Garden Designer. Tokyo; Rutland, VT: Tuttle Publishing, 2012.

  • Mansfield, Stephen. Japan’s Master Gardens: Lessons in Space and Environment. Tokyo: Tuttle, 2012.

  • Wickham, Louise. "Gardens in Japan: Religion, Politics, Culture," in Gardens in History: A Political Perspective. Havertown: Oxbow Books, 2012.

2013

  • Brown, Kendall H. Quiet Beauty: The Japanese Gardens of North America. Tokyo and Rutland, VT: Tuttle, 2013.

  • Esaki, Brett. "Multidimensional Silence, Spirituality, and the Japanese American Art of Gardening." Journal of Asian American Studies 16, 3 (October 2013), 235-65.

  • Kuitert, Wybe. "Composition of Scenery in Japanese Pre-Modern Gardens and the Three Distances of Guo Xi," Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes 33.1 (2013), 1-15.

  • Kuitert, Wybe. Gardens and Landscapes in Japan--1650-1950. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.

2014

  • Fowler, Michael D. Sound Worlds of Japanese Gardens: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Spatial Thinking. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2014.

  • Goto, Seiko, Lidija Ristovska, and Eijiro Fujii. "The Japanese garden at Sonnenberg: The first traditional private Japanese garden in North America," in Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes 34.4 (October 2014): 295-308.
  • Kawaguchi, Yoko. Japanese Zen Gardens. London: Frances Lincoln Limited, 2014.

2015

  • Fowler, Michael. "Sound as a considered design parameter in the Japanese garden," in Journal: Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes, 35.4 (October 2015), 312-327.

2016

  • Bullen, Richard. "Chinese sources in the Japanese tea garden," in Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes 36.1 (January 2016): 5-16.

  • Goto, Seiko, and Naka, Takahiro. Japanese Gardens: Symbolism and Design. New York: Routledge, 2016.

  • Katahira, Miyuki. "Constructing the Image of the Japanese Garden," Die Gartenkunst 28, 2 (2016), 278-292.

  • Kuitert, Wybe. "Context & Praxis: Japan and Designing Gardens in West," Die Gartenkunst 28, 2 (2016), 278-292.

  • Scherer, Elisabeth. "Elaborate 'Contact Spaces': Staging Japanese Gardens for Western Cinema," Die Gartenkunst 28, 2 (2016), 301-309.

  • Schweizer, Stefan. "Japanisch, chinesisch, italienisch, niederländisch, französisch, englisch […]: Gartenkunstgeschichte sowie Gartenhistoriographie und das Problem der Nationenstile," Die Gartenkunst 28, 2 (2016), 231-243.

  • Tagsold, Christian. "Japanese Gardens Unleashed," Die Gartenkunst 28, 2 (2016), 293-300.

  • Tseng, Alice V. "Urban Parks and Imperial Memory: The Formation of Kyoto Imperial Garden and Okazaki Park as Sites of Cultural Revival," in Kyoto Visual Culture in the Early Edo and Meiji Periods: The Arts of Reinvention. Morgan Pitelka and Alice Y. Tseng eds. London and New York: Routledge, 2016.

  • Vogel Chevroulet, Isabelle. Bernard Huet au Japon: Architectures et jardins Zen. Lausanne: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 2016.

  • Watanabe, Toshio. "A Kyoto Garden Renewal? From Meiji to Early Showa Period," in Kyoto Visual Culture in the Early Edo and Meiji Periods: The Arts of Reinvention. Morgan Pitelka and Alice Y. Tseng eds. London and New York: Routledge, 2016.

2017

  • Fiévé, Nicolas. "The Genius Loci of Katsura: Literary Landscapes in Early Modern Japan," Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes 37.2 (2017), 134-156.

  • Keane, Marc Peter. Japanese Garden Notes: A Visual Guide to Elements and Design. Berkeley, California: Stone Bridge Press, 2017.

  • Tagsold, Christian. Spaces in Translation: Japanese Gardens and the West. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.

2018

  • Chung, Julianne. "Moral Cultivation: Japanese Gardens, Personal Ideals, and Ecological Citizenship." The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 76, 4 (Fall 2018), 507-518.

  • Naka, Takahiro. "Variety and Concept in Japanese Garden Design," Orientations 45.9 (May/June 2018), 110-115.

  • Platzek, Carola ed. Die Lehre des Gartens: Gespräche in Japan. Wien: Schlebrügge.Editor, 2018.

  • Suzuki, Hiroyuki (Hart Larabee transl). Landscape Gardener Ogawa Jihei and His Times: A Profile of Modern Japan. Tokyo: Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2018 (original Niwashi Ogawa Jihei to sono jidai, University of Tokyo Press, 2013).

2020

  • Carvalho, Guida, and Cristina Castel-Branco. Luis Frois: First Western Accounts of Japan’s Gardens, Cities and Landscapes. Singapore: Springer, 2020.

 

 

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