Marc Peter Keane

6 products
Japanese Garden Notes
Japanese Garden Notes
$65.00
Of Arcs and Circles
Of Arcs and Circles
$18.95
Cover image for Of Arcs and Circles, isbn: 9781611729542
Of Arcs and Circles
$9.95
The Art of Setting Stones
The Art of Setting Stones
$16.95
Cover image for The Art of Setting Stones, isbn: 9780893469863
The Art of Setting Stones
$9.95
The Japanese Tea Garden
The Japanese Tea Garden
$85.00

Japanese Garden Notes

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"The undisputed American master of Japanese garden scholars.”—New York Times, Dominique Browning

Matching some 400 color photographs to brief, informed observations, renowned garden designer Marc Peter Keane walks us through 100 Japanese gardens, stopping along the way to note essential elements of design, technique, and culture. Covering everything from large-scale aspects of space and balance to subtle elements that are often overlooked, this is an innovative, stunningly visual guide for planning and inspiration.

Landscape architect and author Marc Peter Keane lived in Kyoto, Japan, for nearly 20 years and specializes in Japanese garden design. He lives in Ithaca, New York.

Japanese Garden Notes

Of Arcs and Circles

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A renowned designer of Japanese gardens contemplates wildness, humanity, beauty, the liquid state of the world.

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.

Of Arcs and Circles

Of Arcs and Circles

$9.95 Save $-9.95

A renowned designer of Japanese gardens contemplates wildness, humanity, beauty, the liquid state of the world.

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.

Cover image for Of Arcs and Circles, isbn: 9781611729542

The Art of Setting Stones

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Philosophical essays on the beauty and meaning of traditional Japanese gardens.

In Japanese gardens, composition follows from placement of the first stone; all elements and plantings become interconnected. These eight essays on Kyoto gardens similarly begin with keen description and build into richly meditative excursions into art, Buddhism, nature, and science.

Landscape architect Marc Keane shows how Japanese gardens are both a microcosm of the natural universe and a clear expression of our humanity, mirroring how we think, worship, and organize our lives and communities. Filled with passages of alluring beauty, this is a truly transcendent book about "experiencing" Japanese design.

The Art of Setting Stones

The Art of Setting Stones

$9.95 Save $-9.95
Philosophical essays on the beauty and meaning of traditional Japanese gardens.

In Japanese gardens, composition follows from placement of the first stone; all elements and plantings become interconnected. These eight essays on Kyoto gardens similarly begin with keen description and build into richly meditative excursions into art, Buddhism, nature, and science.

Landscape architect Marc Keane shows how Japanese gardens are both a microcosm of the natural universe and a clear expression of our humanity, mirroring how we think, worship, and organize our lives and communities. Filled with passages of alluring beauty, this is a truly transcendent book about "experiencing" Japanese design.

Cover image for The Art of Setting Stones, isbn: 9780893469863

The Japanese Tea Garden

$85.00 Save $-85.00

Award-winning Japanese landscape architect Marc Peter Keane traces the history and design of tea gardens from T'ang China to present day.

Almost every Japanese garden is influenced by the tea garden. Drawing on his impressive career of garden construction across the United States and Japan, Marc Peter Keane describes the history, design, and aesthetics of tea gardens, from T'ang China to the present day, with over 115 stunning photographs, floor plans, and illustrations. The most extensive book on this genre ever published in English, The Japanese Tea Garden is a rich resource for garden lovers, historians, and landscape architects.

The Japanese Tea Garden