HISTORY OF GARDENS IN EAST ASIA: Bibliography Japan (alphabetical)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  12. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  19. 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.

  20. 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).

  21. Cortazzi, Hugh. "Gardens of Kyoto," Arts of Asia 23, no. 1 (Jan.-Feb. 1993), 76-86.

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

  23. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  36. 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.

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

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

  39. 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.

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

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

  42. 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.

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

  44. 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.

  45. 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.

  46. 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.

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

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

  49. 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.

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

  51. 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.

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

  53. 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.

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

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

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

  57. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  66. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  74. 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).

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

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

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

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

  79. 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.

  80. 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.

  81. 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.

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

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

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

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

  86. 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.

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

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

  89. Kawaguchi, Yoko. Japanese Zen Gardens. London: Frances Lincoln Limited, 2014.

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

  91. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  105. 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.

  106. 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.

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

  108. 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.

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

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

  111. Lancaster, Clay. "Japanese Buildings in the United States before 1900: Their Influence upon American Domestic Architecture," The Art Bulletin, 35, 3 (1953), 217-224.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  124. Mitchell, Emily. "Splendor in the Gravel," Time Magazine (March 4, 1996), 54.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  131. Morse, Edward S. Japanese Homes and their Surroundings. New York: Harper, 1885 (reprints in 1886, 1889, 1961, 1972, 2005).

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

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

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

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

  136. 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.

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

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

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

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

  141. Newsom, Samuel. Japanese Garden Construction. Tokyo: Domoto, Kumagawa and Perkins, 1939.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  148. 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.

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

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

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

  154. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  181. 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.

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

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

  189. 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.

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

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

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