Landscape gardener Ogawa Jihei and his times : a profile of modern Japan /
"Securing the generous support of the politicians and industrialists who propelled Japan's modernization, Ogawa Jihei VII created many outstanding gardens at the end of the nineteenth and the first few decades of the twentieth century. Expressing a Japanese aesthetic even while incorporati...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Japanese |
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Tokyo :
Japanese Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture,
2018.
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| Edition: | First English edition. |
| Series: | Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan).
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Table of Contents:
- Modernization and the development of the Lake Biwa Canal
- Yamagata Aritomo as the beginning
- Gardens of the Bourgeoisie and aristocracy
- Bringing the Lake Biwa Canal to the gardens
- The world of Ueji's gardens expands
- On the creativity of Sukisha Connoisseurs
- The last patron.