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Landscape gardener Ogawa Jihei and his times : a profile of modern Japan
- Title
- Landscape gardener Ogawa Jihei and his times : a profile of modern Japan / Suzuki Hiroyuki ; translated by Hart Larrabee.
- Author
- Suzuki, Hiroyuki, 1945-2014
- Publication
- Tokyo : Japanese Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture, 2018.
- ©2018
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- Additional Authors
- Larrabee, Hart
- Description
- 271 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "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 incorporating modern techniques, his methodology reveals the nature of modernization as Japan experienced it. With a keen eye for architecture, the author takes a long-awaited look at modernization and the modern garden"--Dust jacket.
- Series Statement
- Japan library
- Uniform Title
- Niwashi Ogawa Jihē to sono jidai. English
- Japan library (Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan)
- Alternative Title
- Niwashi Ogawa Jihē to sono jidai.
- Subjects
- Note
- "Originally published in Japanese under the title 'Niwashi Ogawa Jihei to sono jidai' by the University of Tokyo Press in 2013"--title page verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-263) and index.
- Language (note)
- In English translated from the original Japanese.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9784866580197
- 4866580194
- LCCN
- 1921052027007
- OCLC
- on1030440605
- 1030440605
- SCSB-8969808
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries