Japanese garden related literature

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I - Books referenced in the text

These are some books referenced in the text. The first nine in the list where used during the design and construction period. Number ten and up came available later but can be recommended nonetheless.

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[1]	Kuitert, Wybe	Themes in the History of Japanese Garden Art	J.C.Gieben, Publisher, Amsterdam (1988)	ISBN 0-5063-021-9
[2]	Nitschke, Günter	Japanese Gardens	Benedikt Taschen Verlag GmbH, Köln (1991)	ISBN 3-8228-0556-4
[3]	Bring, Mitchell and Wayembergh, Josse	Japanese Gardens: Design and Meaning	McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York. (1981)	ISBN 0-07-007826-2
[4]	Kuck, Loraine	The World of the Japanese Garden: From Chinese Origins to Modern Landscape Art	John Weatherhill, Inc. of New York and Tokyo (1968, 1984)	ISBN 0-8348-0029-2
[5]	Hoover, Thomas	Zen culture	Arkana, Penguin Group, London (1977)	ISBN 0-14-019163-1
[6]	Ohashi, Haruzo	Japanese Garden II	Publishing Co., Ltd, Tokyo. (1986) Graphic-sha	ISBN 4-7661-0390-4
[7]	Sawano, Takashi, et al	The Art of Japanese Gardening	Artia, Prague (1981, 1989)	ISBN 0-600-55110-5
[8]	Freeman/Nosé	The Modern Japanese Garden	Mitchell Beazley, London (2002)	ISBN 1-84000-505
[9]	Herwig, Rob	Tuin planten encyclopedie	Groen Boekerij, Zomer & Keuning, Ede/Antwerpen (1977/1990)	ISBN 90 210 0355-4
[10]	Kenkichi, Ono and Edwards, Walter	Bilingual (English and Japanese) Dictionary of Japanese Garden Terms. As of 2010 also available on the Web: Japanese Garden Dictionary	Kansai Process, Nara (2001)	Karesansui. p.20
[11]	Tschumi, Christian	Mirei Shigemori: Modernizing the Japanese Garden Hardcover 2007 edition: Mirei Shigemori - Rebel in the Garden: Modern Japanese Landscape Architecture	Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley, California, USA (2005) Birkhauser	ISBN 1-880656-94-9
[12]	Hobson, Jake	Niwaki: Pruning, Training and Shaping Japanese Garden Trees	Timber Press, Portland, Origon, USA (2007)	ISBN-13 978-0-88192-835-8
[13]	Bachenheimer Resnick, Susan M.	Bonsai	Swallow Publishing Ltd. (1991). Terra Publishing	ISBN 90-6255-566-7 (Dutch translation)
[14]	Takei, Jiro and Keane, Marc Peter	Sakuteiki: Visions of the Japanese Garden (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature)	Tuttle Publishing, 2001 Paperback (2008)	ISBN 0-8048-3294-3 ISBN 978-0-8048-3968-6
[15]	Yoshikawa, Isao	Building Bamboo Fences	Japan Publications Trading Company (5 Oct 2001)	ISBN-4-8899-6080-5
[16]	Toshiro Inaji (Author), Pamela Virgilio (Translator)	The Garden As Architecture: Form and Spirit in the Gardens of Japan, China, and Korea	Kodansha International (JPN); illustrated edition edition (September 1998)	ISBN13-978-4770017123

II - On-line papers

The following table lists some relevant on-line papers.

The documents in this table have been located on the Internet and where, at the time, freely accessible. To ensure their lasting availability the documents have been placed on the "local" www.karesansui.nl server. If and when applicable, any and all (©) rights for these document are with the original owner. For other than personal use please see and/or contact the originating website for further information.
[a]	Christian Tschumi	A Study of a New Type of Karesansui Garden. Download: ChristianTschumi.pdf	Journal of the Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture. See the abstract: Note 6	Journal Code:F0408A ISSN:1340-8984 VOL.66;NO.5; PAGE.413-416(2003)
[b]	Johnson, Norris Brock	Zen Buddhist Landscapes and the idea of Temple: Muso Kokushi and Zuisen-Ji, Kamakura, Japan. Download: JOHNSON.pdf	Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, CB3115, Alumni Building. Chapel Hill, NC27599-3115, U.S.A.	Arch.&Comport./Arch.& Behav., Vol.9, no.2,p.213-226 (1993) PDF
[c] c.1 c.2 c.3 c.4 c.5	See Note 9 first. Gert J. van Tonder, Michael J. Lyons, Yoshimichi Ejima Gert J. van Tonder, Michael J. Lyons Gert J. van Tonder, Michael J. Lyons Gert J. van Tonder Michael J. Lyons, Gert J. Van Tonder, Ian Shortreed, Nobuji Tetsutani	Visual Perception of Japanese Gardens. Visual perception in karesansui gardens. Download: IAEA_2002_Visual_Perception.pdf Visual structure of a Japanese Zen garden. Download: nature_v419_2002.pdf Visual perception in Japanese Rock Garden Design. Download: axiomathes_2005.pdf Eight lessons from karesansui. Download: 8lessonsfromkaresansui.pdf Calming Visual Spaces: Learning from Kyoto Zen Gardens Download: siggraph2002.pdf	Media Information Science Laboratories (MISL) International Association of Empirical Aesthetics Nature Springer 2005 Group for research and communication on Kansei Siggraph	Proceedings: 17th Congress of the IAEA 4-8 August 2002 Takarazuka, Japan. Initial study excl. "empty space". Brief communications. This is the full study including "empty space". Proceedings of The First International Workshop on Kansei. Abstract of "empty space".
[d]	Edzard Teubert, Fuzei Gardens, Ltd	Pruning strategy Download: on-line-seminars.com - Pruning Strategy.pdf	Online Seminars for Municipal Arborists	No longer available from Online Seminars.
[e]	Susan Clare Scott, McDaniel College	Sacred Earth: Daoism as a Preserver of Environment in Chinese Landscape Painting From the Song through the Qing Dynasties (Page 72 / 98). Download: EWC2006_Final.pdf. Fig 4, page 84; Fig 11, page 91.	The Asian Studies Development Program. The ASDP Association of Regional Centers, Georgia Philosophy Series	East-West Connections: Review of Asian Studies. EWC2006_Final.pdf, Volume 6, Number 1, 2006.
[f]	Huntington, Professor John C.	History of Art 681, Japan Pre-Historic & Buddhist Art. Download: huntington_JC_18 Japan Bud.pdf (9 Mb)	Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art	Lecture 18: Zen, Presentation Huntington Archive online Great ink paintings of Shubun and Sesshu and material on Daitoku-ji complex and the Daisen-in subtemple.
[g]	Wybe Kuitert	Research articles and books by Wybe Kuitert.	Prof.Dr.Ir. Wybe Kuitert Landscape architect BNT, Wageningen, Netherlands
[h]	Arno Suzuki	The learning process of Japanese gardens. Download: TheLearningProcess.pdf	Member of the Academic Society of Japanese Garden.	Also available from TheLearningProcess

III - Books referenced in the text not directly related

The table below shows books referenced in the text not directly related to the subject of Japanese gardens.

[A]	Peter, John	The Oral History of Modern Architecture: Interviews With the Greatest Architects of the Twentieth Century/Book and Cd	Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publisher, New York (1994)	ISBN 0-8109-3669-0
[B]	Thomson, Iain	Frank Lloyd Wright: A Visual Encyclopedia	Grange Books PLC, Rochester. Kent, UK (1999)	ISBN 1-84013-240-X
[C]	- -	Japan: including country map. rev. ed. [1987]. soft cover.	Baedeker Stuttgard Germany (1987)	ISBN 3-87504-205-0
[D]	Stephen Turnbull, Angus McBride	Samurai - The World of the Warrior	Osprey Publishing (2006)	ISBN 1841769517 9781841769516
[E]	Neal Dunnigan	Zen Stories of the Samurai	Global Thinking Books (2005)	-

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