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Themes, Scenes, and Taste in the History of Japanese Garden Art

Wybe Kuitert

出版	J.C. Gieben, 1988
主題	Art / Asian / JapaneseGardening / Japanese Gardens
ISBN	90506302199789050630214
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tg7bAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

The manual Sakuteiki, as well as contemporary novels such as the Tale of Genji, give us a clear insight into the way nature was perceived by the men and women at the court. Mental images of nature relied on archetypes that were derived from classical literature. Most outspoken in this respect were themes of the lyrical poetry that was widely read and written at the Heian court. Practically all of the lyrical poetry was concerned with images of nature, so that it gave an emotional content to plants, trees and other things of nature, present in the garden. The poetic aesthetics of plant material were apparently so well known, that the Sakuteiki hardly discusses planting design in the garden, except for some implicit remarks in its introduction. The conclusion is drawn that the illusion of landscape in the courtly garden of the Heian period relied for a great deal on the evocation and recognition of the imagery of lyrical themes. But these thematic images were not designed as a formal composition; what mattered were the essential elements of the lyrical theme. Composition of form was important for the design of decorative arrangements of rocks in the garden. The manual Sakuteiki employs in this respect the term 'landscape scenery as it is found in nature'. The phrase and the appearance of the Heian rock arrangements suggest a link with landscape painting. Part two, titled "Scenes", deals with the mediaeval period. In Chapter I the period is roughly defined as the fourteenth and fifteenth century. The focus is shifted from the Heian courtly nobility to the rising aristocracy of Zen Buddhist priests and powerful military men. It is shown that the small mediaeval gardens found in front of halls where the new aristocracy held their fashionable gatherings were laid out to be perceived as an outward form, a landscape scene.