Mikio Naruse, Late Chrysanthemums (Bangiku), 1954, Japanese Film Classic
A comic scene from the Mikio Naruse Japanese film classic, Late Chrysanthemums (Bangiku), 1954. In this scene two aging geisha women are seeing ...
A delicate balance
You'll find cycads in the imperial gardens; ground covers might include Juniperus procumbins. Winding paths, set with stepping stones carefully placed to temper your pace and encourage contemplation, are softened with kidney weed, Dichondra micrantha. Paths might be edged with small-leaved Korean box (Buxus macrophylla var. koreana) clipped into low, billowing hills. Shapes convey geography along with mood: a stunted pine will suggest a cold alpine meadow, a clipped tree a windswept coastline.
The key principles of Japanese garden design derive from the intense observation of nature. A garden may be an interpretation, in miniature, of a landscape, a symbolic recreation of it through the placement of just a few rocks: it may be an allegorical journey from the mountains to the sea.
Inspired by the themes of Buddhism, which honour the balance between nature and humanity, garden making was central to members of the imperial household, along with the powerful warlords, the shoguns, who considered garden making a symbol of the educated and cultivated.
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Greens such as mizuna, a mustard, and shungiku, the leaves of chrysanthemums, are easy to find at Asian stores and farmers markets.
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