AH 0102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Chinese Garden, Heian Period, Kamakura Period
12 May 2018
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Notes for Day 11: March 2, 2018
Announcements:
• Midterm on Tuesday, come on time, test will not take the entire time of the class
• Two lectures next week for “outside of class event” on Tuesday March 6th and
Wednesday March 7th
• Google Document online for questions you still have online
Goals for today:
• Viewing Japanese gardens and different elements of a Japanese garden
• Consider translation of Japanese garden design principles 20th century American gardens
• Like gardens and diplomacy
Japanese Garden Types:
• Gardens of Shinden estates
• Dry landscape gardens (karesansui)
• Tea gardens (roji)
• Strolling gardens
We will be focusing on dry landscape and the tea gardens
Shinden Estate Gardens:
• Existed during the Heian period (9tth to 12th centuries)
• Architecture and landscape:
o Water is the largest component of the garden
o The small rocks that seep into the ponds, the stone foundation, and the rock
lantern
o The bridges allow you to move through the garden and view certain portions of
the garden
o The building appears to look like a palace rather than a quaint tea house
o Based on Chinese gardens
o You can see the gardens when you are inside the building, even if you are not
outside the building
o The ponds use the idea of mirroring what is on the inside of the building
• This used to be a court residence that is now a temple, even though it mimics residential
gardens
Gardens are considered paradises:
• Taima Mandala; Japanese 13th century (kamakura period), ink color and gold on silk
• The buildings of the gardens contain Buddhist statues which act as places of spiritual
refuge
Dry rock garden:
• Contains rock gravel lot that evoke water and the design of the rocks appear to look like
ripples in water
• The large rocks on the grass patches exhibit islands in the middle of the water like gravel
lot
• The garden and the painting focus on one portion of nature (the cosmos and macrocosms)
• Both the painting and the garden represent zen
Zen gardens:
• Dry landscape gardens: Ryoan-Ji
• They are zen because they exist in a temple
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Document Summary
Announcements: midterm on tuesday, come on time, test will not take the entire time of the class, two lectures next week for outside of class event on tuesday march 6th and. Wednesday march 7th: google document online for questions you still have online. Goals for today: viewing japanese gardens and different elements of a japanese garden, consider translation of japanese garden design principles 20th century american gardens, like gardens and diplomacy. Japanese garden types: gardens of shinden estates, dry landscape gardens (karesansui, tea gardens (roji, strolling gardens. We will be focusing on dry landscape and the tea gardens. Gardens are considered paradises: taima mandala; japanese 13th century (kamakura period), ink color and gold on silk, the buildings of the gardens contain buddhist statues which act as places of spiritual refuge. Japanese (the japanese signified the chinese ideals of art) In the late 16th century, develop into area for landscaping . In 17th century develop into form that"s common today.
