Designed for the layman as well as the professional, thisconcise yet comprehensive guide provides both practicalinformation and theoretical insights into the design ofthe Japanese garden. Kyoto, the capital of Japan for overone thousand years, possesses a richness of garden artwithout equal as a living chronicle of Japanese culturalhistory and environmental design. Following theintroductory essays are individual entries for more than50 temple and palace gardens. The text is augmented by anexcellent selection of photographs, historical prints,maps, and colour plates. --Book flap

• The Japanese garden and its cultural context
• Chronology
• Making the landscape of Kyoto
• Central district
• Northwest district
• Southwest district
• Northeast district
• Southeast district
• Environs
• Appendices