Of Arcs and Circles
eBook - ePub

Of Arcs and Circles

Insights from Japan on Gardens, Nature, and Art

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Of Arcs and Circles

Insights from Japan on Gardens, Nature, and Art

About this book

From his vantage point as a garden designer and writer based in Kyoto, Marc Peter Keane examines the world around him and delivers astonishing insights through an array of narratives. How the names of gardens reveal their essential meaning. A new definition of what art is. What trees are really made of. The true meaning of the enigmatic torii gate found at Shinto shrines. Why we give flowers as gifts. The essential, underlying unity of the world.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Magnitudes
  6. The Name of the Willow
  7. Wild in the City
  8. Interfaces
  9. Of Arcs and Circles
  10. Solace for the Tumbling Mind
  11. Subtleties
  12. A Garden by Any Other Name
  13. Karesansui
  14. The Bipolar Twins of Japanese Art
  15. On Torii Gates
  16. Little Secrets Everywhere
  17. The Gift of Flowers
  18. There Is No Such Thing as Art
  19. Confluences
  20. Wind in the Trees
  21. Dissolving
  22. Unity
  23. Symmetry
  24. Rivers of the Mind
  25. The Last God
  26. Paths
  27. Dream Garden
  28. Wheels Turning
  29. Emptiness
  30. Acknowledgments
  31. Back Cover