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Pictures from Japan taken from 2005 to 2008
REAL GARDENS - Gardens or "niwa" are achieving the peace that rulers desperately sought during the numerous conflicts. Most of today's famous gardens in Japan owe much to the Zen influence brought from China in the thirteenth century. The visual entities appearing as a design in the Western sense of forms and colors are less important than the invisible, religious, and symbolic elements. Some important Japanese cities have been initially buit-up and thought as a Garden.
TOKYO - The most important Japanese "Garden" is Tokyo. Paris, London, and New York have long-established urban cultures with central concentrations of multistory buildings. However, the majority of Tokyo properties were two-story single-family building. Even with the necessity to rebuild (following the 1923 earthquake and devastating attacks during the last two years of World War II), the scale and type of buildings never changed deeply. For decades, Tokyo resisted high-rise development. A new vision of the city is now evolving in the capital of the still World's second largest economy.
KYOTO - Formerly imperial capital of Japan, Kyoto is just now the capital of Kyoto Prefecture. At the end of World War II, United States decided to remove Kyoto from the list of atomic bomb targets due to the "beauty of the city". As a result, Kyoto is the only large Japanese city that still has an abundance of pre-war buildings.
HIDA - Besides two historical hotspots in Hida region (Takayama city and Shirakawa village), you will discover the fundament of the Japanese culture. The Japanese gardens concept allows us to understand better the Japanese culture as a whole.
Pictures from Japan taken from 2005 to 2008
REAL GARDENS - Gardens or "niwa" are achieving the peace that rulers desperately sought during the numerous conflicts. Most of today's famous gardens in Japan owe much to the Zen influence brought from China in the thirteenth century. The visual entities appearing as a design in the Western sense of forms and colors are less important than the invisible, religious, and symbolic elements. Some important Japanese cities have been initially buit-up and thought as a Garden.
TOKYO - The most important Japanese "Garden" is Tokyo. Paris, London, and New York have long-established urban cultures with central concentrations of multistory buildings. However, the majority of Tokyo properties were two-story single-family building. Even with the necessity to rebuild (following the 1923 earthquake and devastating attacks during the last two years of World War II), the scale and type of buildings never changed deeply. For decades, Tokyo resisted high-rise development. A new vision of the city is now evolving in the capital of the still World's second largest economy.
KYOTO - Formerly imperial capital of Japan, Kyoto is just now the capital of Kyoto Prefecture. At the end of World War II, United States decided to remove Kyoto from the list of atomic bomb targets due to the "beauty of the city". As a result, Kyoto is the only large Japanese city that still has an abundance of pre-war buildings.
HIDA - Besides two historical hotspots in Hida region (Takayama city and Shirakawa village), you will discover the fundament of the Japanese culture. The Japanese gardens concept allows us to understand better the Japanese culture as a whole.
