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The Art of Setting Stones: & Other Writings from the Japanese Garden

By: Marc Peter Keane
Narrated by: Marc Peter Keane
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In Japanese gardens, composition follows from placement of the first stone; all elements and plantings become interconnected. These eight essays on Kyoto gardens similarly begin with keen description and build into richly meditative excursions into art, Buddhism, nature, and science. Landscape architect Marc Keane shows how Japanese gardens are both a microcosm of the natural universe and a clear expression of our humanity, mirroring how we think, worship, and organize our lives and communities. Filled with passages of alluring beauty, this is a truly transcendent audiobook about "experiencing" Japanese design.

Marc Peter Keane has lived in Kyoto for over 20 years and is author of Japanese Garden Design, Japanese Tea Gardens, and Japanese Garden Notes. He designs residential, company, and temple gardens.

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In this book, Keane invites his listeners to see beneath the surface of Japanese life, in particular of Japanese gardens, and to immerse themselves in the ancient tranquillity, beauty and sorrowful impermanence that is written into the landscape. He shows us a Japan distant in time but still visible to those with enquiring hearts who are willing to take time to see. In so doing, he brings together an old Japan and, among other connections (and somewhat surprisingly), modern physics, while revealing some of the philosophy behind the setting of stones.
This book will not tell you how to make a Japanese garden, at least not directly, but it will bring you insights and wisdom, without which Japanese gardens may remain unknowable. It is beautifully written, and the narration holds its own peace. I have the sense that I will remember this book for a long time, thank you.

So much more than a How-To gardening book.

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